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Private office

3:20–3:38 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; 1 name 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 3:263:26Frame at 3:353:35

Play from 3:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 4 · shots 24–25. 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
  • Bennett (named at t:3:26): man in military uniform, cap, medium build, clean-shaven, appears 30s-40s visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands with his back to the camera, looking at papers in a dim office. [frame:1]
  • Close-up of the same man’s face, listening intently. [frame:2]
Also said
“Williams will be waiting for you at the north edge of the woods.” 3:27 · “Understand? Yes, sir.” 3:36
Seen
military uniform [frame:1, frame:2], cap [frame:1], papers [frame:1], wooden cabinet [frame:1], wall clock [frame:1], window with panes [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, formal; themes: military orders, covert rendezvous, wartime communication; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and over-the-shoulder framing, high contrast lighting, studio set

A man in uniform is seen from behind in a dim room, then a close-up of his face as he listens. The transcript indicates he is being given instructions for a rendezvous at Bummer Hill at nine o’clock, to identify a contact by a white smock.

“Very good, Doctor.” 3:20 · “Uh, Bennett.” 3:26 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 3:26 (passage 3:20–3:38); US record: No renewal found

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