Private office
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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 37:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 30 · shots 164–167. 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, older man, wearing dark suit and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
- older man, balding, wearing plaid jacket, seated visible
- younger man, light hair, wearing trench coat over suit, standing visible
- man with dark hair, wearing dark coat, seated visible
- Seen happening
- Three men are seated or standing in a room with bookshelves, engaged in conversation. [frame:1]
- A bald man in a suit sits at a desk and speaks. [frame:2]
- The three men in the book-lined room continue their conversation. [frame:3]
- The bald man at the desk continues speaking, looking slightly to his right. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Obviously Davidson is a man of strong character and infinite patience.” 37:12 · “to smuggle out the secret of the hiding place of a place to his confederates.” 37:19
- Seen
- bookshelves [frame:1], desk [frame:2], bust on pedestal [frame:2], typewriter or machine on table [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, investigative; themes: mystery, prison intrigue, character analysis; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, formal framing, studio lighting
Three men are shown in a room with bookshelves; one seated man speaks while two others listen. A separate shot shows a bald man in a suit seated at a desk, speaking. The transcript discusses a character named Davidson and a mystery about smuggling information from prison.
“offered him a shorter sentence if he'd tell us where he'd hidden the plates.” 37:04 · “He even put in Scotland's yard men with him as cellmates, but...” 37:07 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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