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Private office

13:24–13:36 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:3013:30

Play from 13:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 117–117. 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
  • woman wearing a dark hat and light blouse, seen from side visible
  • Mr. Bennet (named at t:13:27): man in light suit, dark tie, and white shirt, facing camera visible
  • Mr. Thompson (named at t:13:27): man in dark suit and bowler hat, seen from back/side visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and two men stand in a room, facing each other. [frame:1]
Also said
“Pleased to come in?” 13:32
Seen
dark hat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: social protocol, introduction, formal visit; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A man in a suit and tie stands between a woman in a dark hat and a man in a bowler hat; dialogue mentions Miss Hortree, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Bennet. The setting appears to be an interior room with a doorway and wall decor.

“We miss it” 13:26 · “Miss Hortree and Mr. Thompson to see Mr. Bennet. But of course, Monsieur Mademoiselle.” 13:27 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 13:30 (passage 13:24–13:36); US record: No renewal found

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