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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 3:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 8–13. 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
- woman, mid-30s, wearing a dark hat and suit jacket, holding gloves, seated visible
- older woman, 60s, wearing a dark hat and light blouse with a bow, seated visible
- older man, 60s, white hair, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie, standing behind a podium visible, audible
- older man, 60s, balding, wearing a vest and tie, seated behind the auctioneer visible
- man, older, white hair, wearing a suit, seated in audience visible
- Seen happening
- The auctioneer stands at a podium addressing the audience. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “They got a two pound, sir.” 3:25 · “Sold to the gentleman for two pounds.” 3:34
- Seen
- auctioneer's podium, curtains and framed painting, hats and suits
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: commerce, social ritual, formal gathering; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black and white, formal attire, staged interior
An auctioneer in formal attire conducts a sale before a seated audience, starting at ten shillings and concluding at two pounds. The audience includes at least two women and one man, all dressed in period clothing, observing the proceedings.
“All right, we're starting with 10 shillings. 10 shillings, 10 shillings is offered, 10 shillings is offered, 10 shillings is offered. Can anybody give him one pound?” 3:11 · “Bring me one pound. One pound, give me a pound. A pound, one pound is offered, one pound is offered, ladies and gentlemen, one pound is offered, is against you, sir. Will you go to two pounds?” 3:17 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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