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Garden

26:48–27:58 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:2327:23

Play from 26:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 217–217. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and hat, older, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back, older visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in suits stand facing each other outdoors at night. [frame:1]
Also said
“Plenty. We have a copy of the latest English plans.” 27:45 · “Start the generators. Go.” 27:48
Seen
suit, hat, garden bench or structure
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conspiratorial; themes: espionage, secret plans, wartime urgency; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium two-shot, night exterior lighting

Two men in suits speak outdoors at night; one greets the other as 'Governor' and mentions having a copy of English plans. They then begin to start generators.

“Evening, Governor. Good evening, Monsieur. Nice night, ain't it? Oui, Monsieur.” 27:19 · “Good Lord, Kenneth.” 27:26 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 27:23 (passage 26:48–27:58); US record: No renewal found

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