Ballroom
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; 2 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 28:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 229–233. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- ballroom (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- older man with mustache, wearing tuxedo with white bow tie and boutonniere visible, audible
- young woman with blonde hair styled in curls and a flower, wearing a strapless evening gown with floral embellishments visible, audible
- Also said
- “Then you'll go to jail for stealing my stick pin.” 29:07 · “You mean if I don't steal the second time, I go to jail for stealing the first time? Exactly.” 29:11
- Seen
- tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], boutonniere [frame:1], evening gown [frame:1], flower hair accessory [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: moral ambiguity, social class and deception, gender roles in crime; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal costume design
A man in formal wear and a woman in an evening gown are shown in close-up, discussing a plan to steal a watch during a dance, with the man threatening legal consequences if the woman refuses. The setting appears to be a formal event with decorative architecture visible in the background.
“You will discreetly relieve him of his watch.” 28:51 · “- Why, they're stealing. - It's a secret mission.” 28:54 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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