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Private office

31:07–31:32 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:1031:10Frame at 31:1631:16Frame at 31:2531:25Frame at 31:3031:30

Play from 31:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 247–251. 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
  • woman, wearing a beret and coat, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • man, wearing a suit and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • man, wearing a uniform and cap, standing at a wall phone visible
  • woman, seated in the background at a desk visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is seated at a desk holding a newspaper while a man sits across from her. [frame:1]
  • The woman is on the telephone, holding the receiver to her ear. [frame:2]
  • A man in uniform is speaking into a wall-mounted telephone. [frame:3]
  • The woman is reading a newspaper titled 'KING'. [frame:4]
Also said
“Have the message relayed immediately.” 31:26 · “Very good, sir. I'll see that he gets word.” 31:28
Seen
telephone, newspaper, desk, uniform cap, wall-mounted telephone
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and procedural; themes: bureaucratic communication, wartime intelligence operations; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal office setting

A woman and a man are in an office; the woman is on the phone and later reads a newspaper while the man is also on the phone. The transcript indicates a conversation about a man named Kurtz being caught at the Orient docks and a message being relayed.

“Mr. Arthur Bennett's role, please.” 31:11 · “They caught our man Kurtz at the Orient docks.” 31:24 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 31:10 (passage 31:07–31:32); US record: No renewal found

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