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Private office

26:19–26:20 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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.

Frame at 26:2026:20

Play from 26:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 213–213. 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
  • lying on floor, wearing light-colored clothing, appears unconscious or dead visible
  • standing in doorway, wearing dark coat and hat, male, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A person is lying motionless on the floor near a staircase. [frame:1]
  • Another person stands in a doorway observing the scene. [frame:1]
Seen
staircase [frame:1], doorway [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, confrontation, mystery; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, staged composition

A person lies motionless on the floor near a staircase while another person stands in a doorway. The scene is indoors and lit by studio lighting.

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 26:20 (passage 26:19–26:20); US record: No renewal found

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