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 12:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 46–47. 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
- Walter (named at t:12:31): man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing light suit, dark tie, boutonniere visible, audible
- woman, mid-30s, wearing striped suit, dark hat, dark hair visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The woman and man stand close, facing each other in an office. [frame:1]
- The woman and man stand apart, facing each other, in the same office. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Oh, no, Walter. It wouldn't do any good, really. Oh, now, you're not afraid, are you? Afraid? Of course not. Walter, come on. Let's see this paragon. Is he as good as you say? Oh, he's better. What does he want with you? Oh, now you got me. Come on.” 12:32
- Seen
- suit, hat, boutonniere, desk, office chair
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and playful; themes: marriage, professional rivalry, gender roles; style notes: medium close-up and medium shots, high-contrast studio lighting, formal attire, static camera
A man and a woman stand close in an office, speaking; the man wears a suit and the woman a striped suit and hat. The transcript reveals they are discussing another man the woman is to marry, and the man asks to meet him.
“I'm more or less particular about whom my wife marries.” 12:23 · “Do you mind if I meet him?” 12:31 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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