Newsroom
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:12:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 291–292. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
- People
- man wearing a dark coat and fedora, standing at a door visible
- man in light suit jacket, standing near a desk visible
- woman wearing a dark hat and coat, seated at a desk visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a hat stands at a locked door and looks up at it. [frame:1]
- A man and a woman are seated at a desk with typewriters; the man looks toward the door. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “- Listen, what did you say his name was? - I didn't think of him. It's a tribune. - Tribune, huh? Who's in there?” 72:50
- Seen
- door with circular window, typewriters, desk lamp, wall-mounted fan, coat rack
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: bureaucratic confusion, pressroom urgency; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films, static camera shots
A man in a hat stands at a locked door while another man and a woman sit at a desk with typewriters. The dialogue suggests confusion over who is behind the door and mentions a 'tribune'.
“What's the idea of locking this door?” 72:41 · “Who's that? - Benzinger. That's his desk. Open that door, window!” 72:44 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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