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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:00:23 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 51 · shots 285–285. 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, middle-aged, wearing light shirt and dark trousers, standing visible
- woman, wearing dark coat and hat, seated visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man stands at a desk while a woman sits nearby. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Thank you. You know...” 60:31 · “Sherlock Holmes and I have been engaged on a great many cases. - Really? - Yes, indeed.” 60:33
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], shelves with books and bottles [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1], hat worn by woman [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and conversational; themes: detective work, collaboration, mystery; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir
A man stands at a desk while a woman sits nearby; they discuss working on cases with Sherlock Holmes. The setting is an interior room with shelves and framed pictures.
“Perhaps there's something I can do.” 60:28 · “Won't you sit down?” 60:30 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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