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Private office

30:30–30:45 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:3130:31Frame at 30:3930:39

Play from 30:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 243–244. 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:2
People
  • older man, balding, wearing tuxedo and bow tie, seated at desk visible
  • man in military uniform, standing, side profile visible
  • Thompson (named at t:30:34): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo sits at a desk and looks concerned. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform stands beside the desk while the seated man looks at him. [frame:2]
Also said
“He told me before he boarded the Victoria that...” 30:36 · “He didn't feel right about the trip.” 30:39
Seen
desk [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], fireplace [frame:2], uniform [frame:2], tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: loss, duty, premonition; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set with ornate furniture

A man in a tuxedo sits at a desk while another man in uniform stands nearby; the transcript mentions Thompson's death and his premonition before boarding the Victoria. No names are assigned to visible individuals beyond what is spoken in the transcript.

“What a fearful thing.” 30:31 · “Poor Thompson.” 30:34 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 30:31 (passage 30:30–30:45); US record: No renewal found

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