Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 8 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 20:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 15 · shots 88–91. 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
- woman, dark hair, wearing a white fur coat and headband, earrings visible
- Holmes (named at t:21:31): man, wearing a light overcoat and hat, back to camera visible
- Hopkins (named at t:21:31): man, wearing a dark coat and hat, standing near Holmes visible
- Mastraert (named at t:21:35): man, wearing a dark coat and hat, standing near Holmes visible
- Thompson (named at t:21:45): man, wearing a dark coat and hat, standing near Holmes visible
- Emery (named at t:21:38): man, wearing a dark coat and hat, standing near Holmes visible
- man, wearing a dark coat and hat, standing near Holmes visible
- man, wearing a dark coat and hat, standing near Holmes visible
- Also said
- “What about Sherlock Holmes?” 20:45 · “- Ah, Mr. Holmes. - Hopkins.” 21:31
- Seen
- white fur coat [frame:1], hat [frame:3], overcoat [frame:3], desk [frame:3], lamp [frame:1], clock [frame:4], doorway [frame:2], cabinet [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: crime, investigation, mystery, guilt; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costumes
A woman in a fur coat is present at a crime scene where a man has been killed; police and a detective named Holmes are summoned to investigate. The dialogue indicates the victim was known to the killer and that an item is missing.
“You poor. I told you to wait outside.” 20:25 · “Don't touch anything. Now get out. - I'm sorry. - You're sorry? What about me? This is murder. What about Scotland Yard?” 20:35 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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