Frozen lake
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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 6:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 12 · shots 38–43. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- frozen lake (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- Time of day
- night evidence: frame:1
- Period
- 1930s evidence: film release date 1936
- People
- woman in fur hat and patterned coat, seated visible
- Connie (named at t:6:31): man in top hat and overcoat, seated next to p1 visible, audible
- woman in dark coat and headband, standing visible
- man in fur hat and dark coat, standing visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A couple is seated on a frozen lake, embracing. [frame:1]
- Two women stand facing each other, one holding a child. [frame:2]
- Two men stand facing each other, one in a top hat. [frame:3]
- The two men shake hands. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “We weren't eavesdropping, Connie. We were just watching.” 6:31 · “You see... You're engaged. Right here in the middle of the lake.” 6:31
- Seen
- top hat, fur hat, child, frozen lake
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic and slightly comedic; themes: engagement, social propriety, winter setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, night lighting with visible breath, period costumes
Two couples are on a frozen lake at night; one couple is seated and embraced, while the other two stand nearby. A man in a top hat announces an engagement, prompting congratulations from another man.
“Darling, you two better get up. You'll have pneumonia.” 6:31 · “Julie, I think that's terrible, eavesdropping like that.” 6:31 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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