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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
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Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 17–23. 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:4
- People
- older man, balding, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square, standing behind a podium visible, audible
- older man, bald, wearing a vest and tie, seated behind the auctioneer visible
- crowd of men and women in formal attire, seated at tables visible
- Seen happening
- The auctioneer gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:2]
- The auctioneer leans forward over the podium. [frame:3]
- The camera shows a wide view of the auction room with many seated guests and the auctioneer at the front. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Sold to the lady for one pound.” 4:30 · “Tinkle, tinkle. Isn't that lovely?” 4:39
- Seen
- podium [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], painting [frame:1], chandelier [frame:4], tables [frame:4], candles [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: auction, formal gathering, commodity exchange; style notes: static medium shots of the auctioneer, wide shot revealing the audience; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; formal framing
An auctioneer in formal attire conducts a sale from a podium in a crowded room, announcing bids and sales of musical boxes. The audience, seated at tables, watches as the auctioneer gestures and speaks, with a second man visible behind him.
“One pound ten shillings.” 4:18 · “One pound. One pound is off. One pound. One pound is offered. One pound is offered. One pound. Any advance?” 4:20 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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