Living room
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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 52:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 237–239. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
- People
- Sherlock Holmes (named at t:52:52): man in a long coat, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
- Mrs. Courtney (named at t:53:13): woman in a light-colored dress, dark hair styled up, standing near stairs visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A woman stands on a staircase as a man approaches from behind. [frame:1]
- The man and woman stand facing each other in a living room with furniture and a painting. [frame:2]
- The man sits in an armchair, looking toward the woman. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “I think you know, Mrs. Courtney. Well, I did get a summons for speeding last week. But outside of that, I don't think I'm of any interest to the police.” 53:13 · “You say we met before. Yes.” 53:37
- Seen
- staircase with railing, floral wallpaper, striped sofa, armchair with leaf pattern, framed painting on wall, lamp on side table, large vase on table, overcoat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: identity, memory, social encounter; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period interior decor, formal attire
A man introduces himself as Sherlock Holmes to a woman in a decorated interior; she claims not to remember meeting him, though he insists they met at the Kilgore residence. The scene includes a staircase, a living room with furniture, and a seated man in a coat.
“- My name is Sherlock Holmes. - Do come in. Thank you.” 52:52 · “I believe we have a mutual friend in St. Edward Brookdale.” 53:00 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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