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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 35:26 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 29 · shots 160–160. 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
- bald man in suit, seated at desk visible
- Mr. Holmes (named at t:35:28): man standing, wearing overcoat and hat visible
- man seated behind desk, wearing suit visible
- man seated, wearing dark suit, facing p2 visible, audible
- Also said
- “Although the stolen articles themselves have no intrinsic value whatsoever.” 35:50 · “that the Home Secretary was instrumental in seeing that not a word of it appeared in any newspaper.” 35:53
- Seen
- bookshelves [frame:1], desk with papers and typewriter [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], overcoat and hat [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and investigative; themes: crime investigation, secrecy, authority and discretion; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, formal framing around desk and bookshelves
A man identified as Mr. Holmes discusses a past robbery with others in a room filled with books and papers. The conversation references a person named Davidson and a two-year-old London robbery kept secret by the Home Secretary.
“How did you know about the plates, Mr. Holmes? I'm a student of crime, Inspector. I make it my business to know about such things.” 35:28 · “Two years ago in London, there occurred a robbery of such tremendous importance.” 35:44 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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