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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 24:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 99–100. 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 wearing a fedora and a plaid overcoat, visible from the side visible
- man wearing a fedora and a dark overcoat, facing the woman visible
- woman wearing a dark coat and a hat with a veil, standing in a doorway visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The two men enter a house with a staircase. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “My good woman, Mr. Sherlock Holmes.” 24:34 · “Sherlock Holmes, go on. Do you mind if we come in and wait? My business is rather urgent.” 24:36
- Seen
- fedora hat, plaid overcoat, dark overcoat, staircase with metal railing, wooden chair
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: suspicion, uninvited entry, class distinction; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costumes
Two men in hats and coats speak with a woman at a doorway; the men then enter a house with a staircase. The woman warns them that the residents do not buy from peddlers and expresses concern about strangers entering.
“There doesn't seem to be anyone there.” 24:17 · “There's no use your hanging about. They don't buy nothing from peddlers. Peddlers?” 24:30 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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