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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 55:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 255–260. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- woman, mid-adult, wearing a light-colored formal dress with ornate collar and cuffs, dark hair styled up visible
- man, older, wearing a dark suit, bowler hat, and patterned tie visible, audible
- man, seen from back, wearing a heavy coat and dark hat visible
- man, wearing a dark coat and flat cap, partially visible visible
- Mr. Holmes (named at t:55:51): unseen, referred to as Mr. Holmes mentioned
- Seen happening
- A woman speaks while standing in a room with heavy drapes and a lamp. [frame:1]
- Three men stand together; one in a bowler hat holds a small object. [frame:3]
- The man in the bowler hat speaks to another man while a third man looks on. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “You realize, Mr. Holmes, that your demise will not take place here, the...” 55:51 · “Corpus Delecti, you know. Well, naturally.” 56:01
- Seen
- lamp with pleated shade [frame:1], heavy drapes [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:3], flat cap [frame:3], small object held by man in bowler hat [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: negotiation under threat, imminent danger, class distinction; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir, formal attire suggests upper-class setting
A woman in a formal dress speaks in a decorated room while three men, including one in a bowler hat, stand nearby. The transcript indicates a negotiation over a missing musical box and a threat to Mr. Holmes, who is told his demise will not occur at the current location.
“Precisely.” 55:30 · “Turn over the missing musical box with your pledge to take no action against us in the future.” 55:37 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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