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Private office

12:05–12:31 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 12:1812:18

Play from 12:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 41 · shots 113–113. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Henry Thompson (named at t:12:26): man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing dark suit, white shirt, patterned tie, and bowler hat visible, audible
Also said
“by telling them the very sad story of Francis Hawtry.” 12:10 · “Henry Thompson.” 12:26
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], patterned tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: espionage, deception, personal loyalty; style notes: close-up shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, suggesting a dramatic or espionage genre

A man in a dark suit and bowler hat speaks in a dimly lit interior, recounting how he persuaded the Bennets to host someone by telling a fabricated story about Francis Hawtry. He is addressed as Henry Thompson and called the nicest spy the speaker knows.

“No one suspects me in the slightest.” 12:05 · “How did you convince the Bennets that I should be in their home?” 12:08 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 12:18 (passage 12:05–12:31); US record: No renewal found

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