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Private office

16:51–17:03 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:5716:57

Play from 16:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 152–152. 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
  • Mr. Bennet (named at t:16:52): man in dark suit, tie, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • older woman, light hair, pearls, dark dress with white collar visible, audible
  • Mr. Thompson (named at t:16:56): younger woman, dark hat, dark jacket, white ruffled collar visible, audible
Also said
“- Mr. Thompson, I shan't see you again? - No.” 16:56 · “Good luck.” 17:02
Seen
curtains, doorframe, pearl necklace, dark hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and somber; themes: farewell, correspondence, departure; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, period costumes

Three people stand in a room, two women and one man, engaged in a farewell conversation. One woman speaks of writing from America, and the man wishes her good luck.

“Mr. Bennet.” 16:52 · “I'm so grateful.” 16:53 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 16:57 (passage 16:51–17:03); US record: No renewal found

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