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Private office

13:36–14:03 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:4613:46Frame at 13:5613:56Frame at 13:5913:59Frame at 14:0114:01

Play from 13:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 118–121. 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 Francis Hortrey (named at t:13:53): woman, dark hat, dark coat with white collar, carrying a handbag visible
  • man, military uniform with medals, mustache visible, audible
  • Mr. Bennet (named at t:13:53): older man, white hair, black suit, bow tie visible, audible
  • George (named at t:13:53): man, dark suit, patterned tie, pocket square, mustache visible
  • Monsieur Benfrey (named at t:13:48): older man, striped vest, dark tie, white shirt visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform and a woman enter a room. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform speaks to a woman while another man looks on. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit and a woman in a hat stand facing the man in uniform. [frame:3]
  • An older man in a vest speaks directly to someone off-camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“you are expect by Monsieur Benfrey.” 13:48 · “- Mr. Bennet, George, may I present Miss Francis Hortrey? - How do you do?” 13:53
Seen
door [frame:1], handbag [frame:1], medals on uniform [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2], patterned tie [frame:3], pocket square [frame:3], striped vest [frame:4], dark tie [frame:4], white shirt [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: introductions, social protocol, espionage or official meeting; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costumes

A man in uniform and a woman enter a room where two men are waiting; one of the waiting men greets the woman by name and asks a servant to announce the guests to Mrs. Bennet. The scene includes formal introductions and a request for a message to be delivered.

“This way, please.” 13:39 · “Permit me, sir.” 13:44 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 13:46 (passage 13:36–14:03); US record: No renewal found

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