Field
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; 9 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 32:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 47 · shots 182–186. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark shirt, dark hair, medium build visible
- man in plaid shirt, dark hair, medium build visible
- woman in light dress, dark hair, medium build visible
- man in dark shirt and hat, medium build visible
- man in light shirt and hat, medium build visible
- man in striped shirt, dark hair, medium build visible
- Joe (named at t:32:48): unseen speaker audible
- Tommy (named at t:32:56): unseen speaker audible
- Dougie (named at t:33:00): unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a plaid shirt points while speaking to another man and a woman standing behind him. [frame:1]
- A man in a hat leans on a wooden crate while talking to others. [frame:2]
- A man in a hat and light shirt gestures while speaking to another man. [frame:3]
- A man in a striped shirt holds a large bunch of bananas. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Oh, that's Tommy's sister. Yeah? What'd she do? She didn't do nothing.” 32:56 · “She's supposed to watch Tommy get degenerated. Regenerated? Fuck. Cut it, Dougie.” 33:00
- Seen
- wooden crate, bananas, hat, hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: family obligation, legal consequences, informal dialogue; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, natural outdoor lighting, casual framing
Three men and a woman are seen in an outdoor setting with palm fronds and a wooden crate; one man holds a large bunch of bananas. Dialogue references a character named Tommy, his sister, and a judge's decision regarding reform school.
“I'm going to tour back, Joe. I'm going to tour back, like him. Oh, you ain't got the noise. You ain't got the noise.” 32:48 · “Who's the dame?” 32:55 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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