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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; 4 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 29:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 24 · shots 127–129. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- older man, balding, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, standing at a podium visible, audible
- man wearing an apron, standing near a table, back to camera in frame 3 visible
- young woman wearing a hat, seated in audience visible
- audience members, mostly men in suits and hats, seated visible
- Seen happening
- Auctioneer stands at podium addressing audience. [frame:1]
- Auctioneer leans back dramatically at podium. [frame:2]
- Man in apron walks away from table toward auctioneer's podium. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “The young lady can steal it for one pound and a two a good fortune.” 29:21 · “Sold to the young lady for one pound.” 29:27
- Seen
- auction podium, table with dolls and glassware, chandelier, framed portraits on wall, hats worn by audience members
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: theatrical and brisk, with the auctioneer performing for the crowd; themes: commerce and value, performance and spectacle, social gathering; style notes: medium shots with static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films, ornate set design
An auctioneer sells a doll for one pound to a young lady in a crowded room with ornate decor. The auctioneer speaks at a podium while a man in an apron stands near a table displaying items.
“Two pounds. Anybody offer me two pounds? Two pounds for the Hunkberry? Two pa...” 29:04 · “One pound. What? Anybody give me one pound? Anybody offer me one pound for the doll? One pound is offered, ladies and gentlemen. One pound is offered.” 29:08 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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