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; 6 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 29:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 130–131. 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
- older man, balding, wearing dark suit and bow tie, standing behind podium visible, audible
- man in dark suit, holding papers, entering through glass doors visible
- woman in light dress, standing near podium visible
- man in light suit, seated at table visible
- people visible outside glass doors, indistinct visible
- Sir Andrew Copleston (named at t:29:46): unspecified speaker audible
- Seen happening
- A man enters through glass doors holding papers. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “It was discovered there by the noted antiquarian Sir Andrew Copleston.” 29:46 · “Besides being a noted traveler and antiquarian, he's also a gentleman rider.” 29:55
- Seen
- wooden podium, glass doors, table with objects, papers, chandelier
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and informative; themes: antiquities, presentation, social gathering; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, period decor
A man at a podium addresses an audience about a Ming vase, referencing Sir Andrew Copleston. Another man enters through glass doors holding papers, while people are visible outside.
“And now, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to something which may be a great surprise to you, worthy of any collection.” 29:31 · “It's a Ming vase of the 7th dynasty.” 29:40 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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