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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 9:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 11 · shots 41–44. 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, frame:3 (desk, lamp, bookshelves); frame:2, frame:4 (fireplace, violin, armchair)
- People
- older man, white hair, mustache, wearing dark suit and bow tie, seated at desk visible
- younger man, dark hair, wearing dark coat, seated in armchair holding violin visible
- Seen happening
- p1 is seated at a desk, looking off-camera with a serious expression [frame:1]
- p2 is seated in an armchair, holding a violin and bow, looking toward p1 [frame:2]
- p1 adjusts his glasses while speaking [frame:3]
- p2 continues to hold the violin, listening [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Yes.” 9:45 · “as the woman.” 9:50
- Seen
- desk lamp, violin and bow, fireplace mantle with bottles and figurine, glasses
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, contemplative; themes: memory, identity, intellectual discourse; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, chiaroscuro lighting, static camera, period costume
Two men are shown in alternating close-ups within a dimly lit interior; one speaks of 'the woman' and 'Irene Adler' while the other listens. The dialogue references memory and identity, with one man holding a violin.
“The woman, a soul.” 9:38 · “She had one, you know. By "the woman," I suppose you mean Irene Adler.” 9:40 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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