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; 4 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 54:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 39 · shots 252–254. 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
- Mr. Holmes (named at t:55:08): man in dark overcoat, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
- Mrs. Courtney (named at t:55:13): woman in light-colored dress with lace collar, dark hair styled up visible, audible
- man in dark suit, bowler hat, mustache visible
- man in dark coat, flat cap, mustache visible
- Seen happening
- Mr. Holmes holds a small object while speaking to Mrs. Courtney. [frame:1]
- Mrs. Courtney speaks to Mr. Holmes while standing opposite him. [frame:2]
- Mr. Holmes looks toward Mrs. Courtney while holding an object. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “It was indeed a brilliantly designed trap.” 55:16 · “Memory?” 55:28
- Seen
- cigarette case or small box, bowler hat, flat cap
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: confrontation, intellectual rivalry, deception; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, formal attire
A man in a coat speaks with a woman in a light dress while two other men stand nearby; the transcript reveals a confrontation involving Holmes and Mrs. Courtney. No objects or on-screen text are clearly visible beyond clothing and interior architecture.
“I should advise you not to move, Mr. Holmes.” 55:08 · “I must congratulate you on your ingenuity, Mrs. Courtney.” 55:13 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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