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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 38:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 272–274. 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
- Constance Jordan (named at t:38:13): woman, light hair, wearing a bonnet and dark dress with lace collar visible, audible
- Raymond (named at t:38:23): man, dark hair, wearing a coat over a collared shirt visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The woman looks at the man with concern. [frame:1]
- The man looks surprised or alarmed. [frame:2]
- The woman speaks with urgency, her expression pleading. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Raymond?” 38:23 · “That's why I stood here hoping that those men wouldn't let you go.” 38:27
- Seen
- bonnet, dark coat, lace collar
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: duty versus personal desire, sacrifice, interpersonal conflict; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing emphasizing emotional expression
A woman and a man have an emotional conversation in an interior setting; the woman pleads with the man not to go, referencing an officer on the Merrimack and a person named Raymond. The dialogue suggests a conflict tied to duty or sacrifice.
“Its success will spell failure for you and me.” 38:13 · “My brother... There's an officer on the Merrimack.” 38:18 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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