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Private office

19:10–19:24 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:1519:15Frame at 19:2219:22

Play from 19:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 172–173. 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 with dark curly hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with a high collar visible
  • older man with receding hair, wearing a dark suit and light vest with a bow tie visible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man stand facing each other in a room with a mirror. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns to face the man more directly, her expression serious. [frame:2]
Also said
“Carl Schiller, 7.” 19:21 · “fatherland.” 19:22
Seen
mirror, ornate chair back
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: espionage, identity, interrogation; style notes: medium close-up, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films

A man and a woman face each other in a room with a mirror; the transcript includes fragmented names and phrases. No named characters are established by dialogue, and no time or place is specified beyond an interior setting.

“L.A. Bondor Bia.” 19:18 · “And you?” 19:20 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 19:15 (passage 19:10–19:24); US record: No renewal found

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