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; 3 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 9:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 45–47. 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:3
- People
- man wearing a dark suit and a wide-brimmed hat, seen from behind entering a room visible
- Sharon Holmes (named at t:10:06): older man with balding hair, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie, standing in a room with bookshelves visible, audible
- Julian Emery (named at t:10:13): man in a dark suit, standing next to p2, smiling visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a hat enters a room through a door. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “then proceeded to commit the most idiotic burglary you ever heard of.” 10:47 · “Oh, simply from the fact that with about 5,000 pounds worth of musical boxes in my living room... the thief who I caught in the act. made off of one that doesn't even worth five pounds.” 11:08
- Seen
- wide-brimmed hat, bookshelves, lamp, armchair
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful and conversational; themes: mystery, crime, social interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting
A man in a hat enters a room and is introduced to another man; they discuss a recent burglary. The man who was robbed explains that the thief stole a low-value musical box despite many valuable ones being available.
“I want you to meet my old friend Sharon Holmes.” 10:06 · “Holmes, this is stinky. In other words, Julian Emery. How do you do, Mr. Emery? Watson is often spoken of you.” 10:13 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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