Private office
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; 2 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 9:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 2 · shots 40–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man, mid-30s, slim build, wearing a light suit and tie visible, audible
- woman, mid-30s, wearing a striped dress, dark hat, and gloves visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The man and woman stand face-to-face in an office. [frame:1]
- The man holds up a ring while the woman looks at him. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Well, good grief, how much is that other paper going to pay you? There isn't any other paper. Oh, well, in that case, I'll raise it off. You go back to your old salary and I'm like, how do you like that? It's trying to backtrack me. Hold on, I want to show you something. I'm busy. It's here, it's a ring. Take a good look at it. You know what it is? It's an engagement ring.” 9:27
- Seen
- engagement ring, office desk, filing cabinet, hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: negotiation, romantic proposal, professional conflict; style notes: tight two-shot framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-up scale
A man in a suit and a woman in a striped dress and hat stand close in an office; he holds up a ring while she looks at him. The transcript includes dialogue about salary negotiation and an engagement ring.
“If you won't do it for love, how about money?” 9:18 · “Forget the other offer. I'll raise you 25 bucks a week. Listen to me, you great big bumble-headed bad booze. I'll make you 35 bucks and not a cent more. Or are you going to listen?” 9:21 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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