Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 30:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 179–180. 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
- older man, glasses, bow tie, dark suit, formal 19th-century attire visible
- younger man, dark suit, neat hair, 19th-century attire visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a bow tie speaks while standing in a room with bookshelves and windows. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit turns a dial on a wall-mounted safe. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “This is duck soup.” 30:45
- Seen
- wall-mounted safe [frame:2], bow tie [frame:1], bookshelves [frame:1], window with curtains [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense with comic undertones; themes: deception, crime, humor; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up framing, studio lighting, period costume detail
A man in a suit interacts with a wall safe while another man in a bow tie speaks. The dialogue includes a reference to a combination and the phrase 'duck soup.'
“Have you forgotten the combination?” 30:41 · “I don't think I'm combination.” 30:43 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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