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Living room

26:20–26:48 Registered 1940

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; 3 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.

Frame at 26:2726:27Frame at 26:3826:38Frame at 26:4526:45

Play from 26:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 214–216. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored robe or gown, appears weary visible, audible
  • man, older, gray hair, wearing a dark suit or tuxedo, standing upright visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a white bow tie and dark jacket, peering from a doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans toward a seated woman who looks up at him. [frame:1]
  • The man guides the woman toward a staircase while speaking to her. [frame:2]
  • A third man watches from a doorway with a serious expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“That is necessary, really it isn't. Now, now, no more arguments.” 26:38 · “Very kind of life.” 26:44
Seen
staircase, doorway, robe or gown, tuxedo or dark suit, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: care and concern, exhaustion and vulnerability, social formality; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium and close-up shots, formal attire suggests a period setting

A woman appears distressed and is comforted by a man who leads her toward a staircase; another man watches from a doorway. The dialogue suggests she is exhausted and being taken upstairs, with one man insisting it is necessary.

“I guess I am exhausted.” 26:30 · “I'll be all right now. You poor child. Come along. I'll take you upstairs.” 26:32 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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Frame from British Intelligence (1940) at 26:27 (passage 26:20–26:48); US record: No renewal found

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