Police station
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 3:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 7 · shots 23–25. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:3
- People
- man in dark suit and fedora, medium build, smiling visible, audible
- man in light suit and fedora, older, mustache, seated visible, audible
- man lying face down on table, shirtless, dark hair visible
- man in dark suit and fedora, partially visible, facing p1 visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a fedora speaks to another man while standing in a room with others. [frame:1]
- The same man continues speaking, now with a slight smile. [frame:2]
- A man in a light suit sits beside a shirtless man lying on a table, while others stand around. [frame:3]
- Mentioned
- It is said that Phelan was wrong about Barney Schofield and that Schofield was later executed. [t:4:19]
- Also said
- “Those deadens may start trouble if you leave them alone too long.” 3:58 · “till one day he made the wrong one.” 4:19
- Seen
- fedora hats [frame:1], table with body [frame:3], suit jackets [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: justice, mistaken identity, police procedure; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costumes
A man in a fedora speaks with another man in a police station; a third man lies on a table nearby. The dialogue references a past case involving Barney Schofield and a detective named Phelan who was wrong about him.
“Is that how you identified Barney Schofield?” 3:50 · “You'd better get along back to the morgue.” 3:57 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.
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