Private office
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 29:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 38 · shots 151–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a hat and dark coat, possibly middle-aged visible, audible
- woman with short hair, wearing a patterned dress visible, audible
- man lying in bed, wearing light-colored pajamas or hospital gown visible
- woman with blonde hair, wearing a white blouse and dark skirt visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a hat speaks with a woman in a patterned dress. [frame:1]
- A man lies in bed, looking upward. [frame:2]
- A man in a hat and a woman in a white blouse stand near a window. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Just want to stop in and see about the kids. I got to make my report to the board, you know. Ah, not they care about us.” 29:17 · “Hey, sir, I'm possibly getting a picture of you, huh? My picture? Why not? Okay, I'll hear what it's like.” 29:22
- Seen
- hat, bed, window, curtains
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: institutional authority, mental health, care for children; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s cinema
A man in a hat speaks with a woman in a patterned dress, then a man lies in bed, and finally the man in the hat stands with a woman in a white blouse near a window. The dialogue suggests concern for a boy's mental state and a report to a board.
“Or leave the boy alone, Shilf. He's been out of his head for a while.” 29:11 · “two days. Sure, sure, it's all right. I'll be on my way now.” 29:14 automatic transcript, may be wrong
The record
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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