Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 20:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 54 · shots 178–179. 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
- Colonel Gates (named at t:20:41): man, middle-aged, wearing dark suit and white shirt, seen from behind visible
- man, middle-aged, wearing light-colored suit, standing in doorway visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a dark suit enters a room through a doorway. [frame:1]
- Two men stand in a doorway, one facing away, one facing toward the camera. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “You are expected by Monsieur Berry in the library.” 20:52
- Seen
- framed portrait, wall sconce, glass-paneled door, framed picture
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: espionage, formal introduction, hierarchical authority; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio production
A man in a dark suit is seen from behind entering a room; another man in a suit stands nearby. A voice identifies himself as Colonel Gates and mentions being expected by Monsieur Berry in the library.
“Call me Colonel Gates. I did about that.” 20:41 · “Merci, monsieur. Merci.” 20:48 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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