Living room
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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 26:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 21 · shots 113–114. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- adult male, wearing a hat and coat, medium build visible, audible
- child, female, wearing a patterned dress and headscarf, crying visible, audible
- child, male, wearing a hat and jacket, seated visible
- Also said
- “She won't come back.” 26:23 · “Did you show her your new musical box? Yes, she said she wanted to hear it play. And as soon as I showed it to her, she grabbed all of it. I know. Now, don't worry nobody. We'll buy you a new musical box. Yes, my dear. The best one in London.” 26:24
- Seen
- musical box [frame:1], chair [frame:1], cupboard [t:26:16], hat [frame:1, frame:2], coat [frame:1], patterned dress [frame:2], headscarf [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comforting; themes: childhood trauma, adult reassurance, theft of a cherished object; style notes: close framing on emotional interaction, high-contrast lighting, static camera
A man comforts a crying child who says she was tied up and had her musical box stolen. Another child sits nearby as the man promises to buy a new musical box.
“Come on, Hubs. Get on the chair here.” 26:03 · “She tied me up and shut me in the cupboard. I know, I know.” 26:16 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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