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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 40:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 95 · shots 298–302. 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
- Miss Hortry (named at t:40:52): woman, dark curly hair, wearing a satin dress with lace sleeves and pearl earrings visible, audible
- man, wearing a dark coat and bowler hat, mustache visible, audible
- man, wearing a dark coat and fedora, standing behind p2 visible
- Tony (named at t:40:58): man, wearing a tweed coat and tie, clean-shaven, standing to the right visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Three men stand facing a woman in a room. [frame:1]
- The woman speaks, looking concerned. [frame:2]
- The woman continues speaking, expression serious. [frame:3]
- The three men look at the woman, one speaking. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I should think that you would at least insist on looking in the closet.” 41:05 · “I beg your pardon? When I catch someone, he stays caught.” 41:09
- Seen
- satin dress with lace sleeves [frame:2], pearl earrings [frame:2], bowler hat [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], tweed coat [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: espionage, authority, suspicion; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests 1940s studio production
A woman in a satin dress speaks with three men in hats and coats in an interior setting. The dialogue indicates a confrontation about British intelligence and a closet search.
“Sorry to have disturbed you, Miss Hortry.” 40:52 · “You are the British intelligence department.” 41:01 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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