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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 38:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 30 · shots 171–172. 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, mustache, wearing dark suit and tie visible
- Mr. Holmes (named at t:38:07): younger man, dark hair, wearing patterned overcoat and tie visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit sits at a desk, looking toward the camera. [frame:1]
- A man in a coat holds and examines a small rectangular object. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Or rather, in all three musical boxes.” 38:14 · “Our opponents have two thirds of the puzzle, but we have one third.” 38:19
- Seen
- musical box [t:38:09], desk [frame:1], bust sculpture [frame:1], bookshelf [frame:2], small rectangular object [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: mystery, clue-solving, possession of objects as plot device; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static camera
A man in a suit sits at a desk while another man in a coat examines a small object. The transcript mentions musical boxes and a puzzle, suggesting a mystery involving coded messages.
“I believe you hit it, Mr. Holmes.” 38:07 · “I'm sure that the message is contained in this musical box.” 38:09 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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