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Private office

48:19–48:38 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; 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 48:2548:25Frame at 48:3548:35

Play from 48:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 100 · shots 324–325. 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
  • Frank (named at t:48:33): man in military uniform, young, medium build visible, audible
  • older man, balding, wearing suit jacket, expressive face visible, audible
  • Mala (named at t:48:31): woman, blonde, wearing dark dress, mid-adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • An older man in a suit gestures toward a uniformed man. [frame:1]
  • A woman embraces the uniformed man. [frame:2]
Also said
“Frank! Oh, Frank!” 48:33 · “Frank, my boy, my boy.” 48:35
Seen
military uniform, suit jacket, door, furniture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: emotional reunion; themes: reunion, military, family; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, black and white

A man in uniform is greeted by an older man and a woman who call him Frank. The setting appears to be an interior room with doors and furniture visible.

“Permit me.” 48:23 · “Mala!” 48:31 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 48:25 (passage 48:19–48:38); US record: No renewal found

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