Private office
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 12:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 147–148. 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
- man wearing a dark uniform cap and jacket, standing behind a desk visible
- man in a light-colored aviator-style jacket, standing facing p1 visible, audible
- woman with blonde curled hair, wearing a dark suit, standing to the right visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Three people stand in an office, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
- The group remains in the office; one man turns slightly while speaking. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Come up to my house for a sandwich. Okay, honey, that's a date.” 12:45 · “But just the same, if flight 14 should get through, I'm not going to have that payroll money kicking around here all night. It'd be a swell chance for somebody to grab it.” 12:45
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], wall-mounted lamp [frame:2], paper on desk [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pragmatic; themes: aviation, security, personal invitation amid professional risk; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shots, static framing, period costume
Three people stand in a dimly lit interior, discussing a flight and payroll money. One person invites others to their house for a sandwich, while expressing concern about leaving money unsecured if a flight arrives.
“tonight.” 12:40 · “And you two aviators can go fly a kite.” 12:40 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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