Living room
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; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 26:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 22 · shots 115–117. 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:3
- People
- Holmes (named at t:26:40): man, middle-aged, wearing a patterned overcoat, dark tie, and a fedora-style hat visible, audible
- Watson (named at t:26:38): man, middle-aged, wearing a plaid overcoat and a bowler hat visible, audible
- child, young girl, blonde hair, wearing a plaid dress visible
- woman, described as a 'consummate actress' and 'unscrupulous', not visible mentioned
- young lady, mentioned as having bought a musical box, not visible mentioned
- Sheriff, mentioned, not visible mentioned
- Seen happening
- Holmes and Watson stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
- Holmes stands alone, hands in coat pockets, looking off-camera. [frame:2]
- Watson sits beside a child in a chair near a fireplace. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “An extremely clever, unscrupulous woman that will stop at nothing. Take care of the child, will you, Wolf? I'll learn till her parents get back. Explain everything to them. Of course, sir, but...” 26:54 · “I must get to the young lady who bought that third musical box before our opponents find her.” 27:06
- Seen
- fedora hat, bowler hat, overcoats, fireplace, child's chair, small table with three dark objects, wallpapered walls
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and conspiratorial; themes: deception, pursuit, child in peril; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, period costume, interior set with fireplace and wallpaper
Two men in coats and hats converse in a room with a fireplace; one man leaves while the other stays with a child. A third person, a woman, is mentioned in dialogue but not visible.
“Oh, what a fool, what a fool I've been. What do you mean, Holmes? She took the musical box out of this house and that monkey basket. Right under our very noses.” 26:40 · “Why could the Kilgore childwoman want to take the music box? She isn't a Kilgore childwoman. She's a consummate actress.” 26:48 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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