Private office
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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 33:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 270–270. 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, balding, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
- younger man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing with hands behind back visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a tuxedo answers a telephone while another man stands nearby. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “She conveyed the information to Miss Hortree through a code message on the typewriter keys.” 35:25 · “Complete confirmation.” 35:35
- Seen
- telephone receiver, desk lamp, bookshelf
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: espionage, betrayal, bureaucratic procedure; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, classic 1940s studio production design
Two men are in an office; one answers a phone call and learns that a man named Curtis was picked up at Orient Pier, linked to a code message sent by Miss Risdon. The conversation reveals suspicions about Miss Hortrey and Miss Risdon’s involvement in espionage.
“Hi, Yigits.” 34:48 · “Brixton here picked up a man on the Orient Pier.” 35:17 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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