Private office
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.
Play from 20:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 180–182. 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 Yates (named at t:21:08): older man, white hair, wearing a dark tuxedo with bow tie and patterned vest visible, audible
- younger man, dark hair, mustache, wearing a light tweed suit with patterned tie and white pocket square visible, audible
- Crichton (named at t:21:05): man with dark hair, wearing a dark suit with a patterned vest and white shirt collar visible
- Also said
- “Crichton, will you pick them up in the morning?” 21:05 · “- Take them to the war office, Bals. - Certainly, Colonel Yates.” 21:08
- Seen
- bookshelves [frame:1], lamp [frame:2], safe [t:21:02]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and urgent; themes: military protocol, secure transfer of materials, hierarchical command; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing, period costume
Two men in formal attire are in a room with bookshelves; one is addressed as Colonel Yates and is told to put items in a safe. A third man, Crichton, is asked to retrieve the items in the morning for delivery to the War Office.
“Hello, Yates.” 20:57 · “Better put them in the safe.” 21:02 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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