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Private office

5:04–5:10 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote 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 5:065:06Frame at 5:095:09

Play from 5:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 36–37. 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
  • man in military uniform, standing, wearing peaked cap visible
  • man in military uniform, seated at desk, wearing peaked cap and sunglasses visible
  • Mrs. von Strändler (named at t:5:07): hand holding note, no other features visible visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds a crumpled handwritten note. [frame:1]
  • Two men in military uniforms are in an office; one stands, the other sits reading a paper. [frame:2]
Seen
handwritten note [frame:1], military uniforms [frame:2], desk with papers and inkwell [frame:2], window with daylight [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, formal; themes: military authority, correspondence, formal address; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period military costume

A hand holds a handwritten note addressed to 'Mrs. von Strändler' while two men in military uniforms are shown in an office. One man stands while the other sits at a desk, reading a paper.

“Mrs. von Strändler.” 5:07 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 5:06 (passage 5:04–5:10); US record: No renewal found

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