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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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 21:03 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 45 · shots 201–201. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a white cap and dark shirt, smoking visible
- man wearing a dark cap, leaning forward with arms crossed, looking serious visible
- man in background wearing a dark cap, smiling visible
- man in background wearing a light blue shirt visible
- Captain Bill (named at t:21:19): unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a white cap smokes while others look on. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Captain Bill is keen as alive in Wittehan.” 21:19
- Seen
- pipe or cigarette [frame:1], caps [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: secrecy, loyalty, survival; style notes: tight framing, low-key lighting, close-up on faces suggesting drama or secrecy
A group of men in a dim interior setting, some wearing caps, are gathered closely; one man smokes while another looks on with arms crossed. A voice says not to follow, then mentions Captain Bill being alive in Wittehan.
“Don't follow me, lad.” 21:12 · “Never mind.” 21:16 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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