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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 14:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 69–72. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Unimus Emery (named at t:14:51): older man, white hair, wearing dark suit and bow tie visible, audible
- younger man, dark hair, wearing suit and tie, holding a glass visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The older man, Unimus Emery, is shown speaking and gesturing. [frame:2]
- The younger man holds a small box while speaking with the older man. [frame:3]
- Unimus Emery holds and examines the box. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Unimus Emery.” 14:51 · “It might be wise for you to put that box away somewhere and lock it up.” 15:07
- Seen
- small box [frame:3], glass [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], bow tie [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: theft, suspicion, ownership of stolen goods; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, formal attire suggests 1940s noir
Two men discuss a stolen box purchased at auction; one recounts being robbed and struck on the head. The older man examines the box while the younger man holds a glass.
“You, uh, you see, you bought that box at an auction sale yesterday. Yes, the Gaylord auction rooms in, uh, Nice Ridge.” 14:36 · “About three o'clock this morning.” 14:49 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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