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Private office

40:37–40:46 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 40:4040:40Frame at 40:4540:45

Play from 40:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 95 · shots 296–297. 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, heavy-set, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie and white shirt visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing behind p1 visible
  • man in overcoat and hat, standing behind p1 visible
  • woman with dark curled hair, wearing a light formal dress with lace collar and pearl earrings visible
Also said
“the escape while being transferred to the tower.” 40:40 · “I heard a lot of shooting and whistles.” 40:43
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], formal dress with lace collar [frame:2], pearl earrings [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: espionage, escape, suspense; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests a dramatic or espionage context

A man in a tuxedo and two other men are shown in a dim interior, followed by a woman in a formal dress. The transcript mentions a German spy named Kurtz escaping during transfer and sounds of shooting and whistles.

“A man named Kurtz.” 40:37 · “The German spy.” 40:39 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 40:40 (passage 40:37–40:46); US record: No renewal found

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