Auction house
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 28:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 123–126. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- auction_house (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
- People
- older man, balding, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and bow tie, seated at a podium visible, audible
- older man, bald, wearing a light shirt and dark apron, standing, holding a doll-like object visible
- audience members, mostly men in suits and hats, seated in rows visible
- Seen happening
- A man in an apron holds up a doll-like costume for display. [frame:1]
- The auctioneer gestures toward the item while speaking. [frame:2]
- The camera shows a wide view of the auction room with the auctioneer at the podium and the audience seated. [frame:3]
- The auctioneer looks upward while speaking. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “A costume and exact replica of the holiday clothes worn by the Hungarian peasant women.” 28:51 · “Now, ladies and gentlemen, An article like this would cost him from 15 to 20 pounds in a West End shop.” 28:55
- Seen
- doll-like costume, auctioneer's podium, audience seating, curtains and wall decor
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: commodity and value, performance of authority, cultural artifacts as auction items; style notes: static medium and wide shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged composition centered on the auctioneer and podium
A man in an apron presents a 19th-century Hungarian peasant costume to an auctioneer and audience. The auctioneer, seated at a podium, addresses the crowd about the item's value and solicits a bid of two pounds.
“Next we have a real museum piece, ladies and gentlemen.” 28:44 · “A fine 19th century law.” 28:48 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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