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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 27:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 110–110. 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
- Bruce (named at t:27:41): man standing, wearing a white shirt and tie, adjusting his tie; appears to be in his 30s or 40s visible, audible
- Mr. Burns (named at t:27:35): man seated at a desk, wearing a suit and tie, looking up at p1 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man stands and adjusts his tie while another man sits at a desk looking up at him. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Why, Hildy, of course.” 27:53 · “I was a bad husband to Hildy.” 28:14
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], office chair [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and personal; themes: marital responsibility, financial obligation, personal redemption; style notes: medium two-shot, static camera, high-contrast studio lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s-40s setting
Two men are in an office; one stands adjusting his tie while the other sits at a desk. The seated man speaks about a beneficiary and alimony, referencing a woman named Hildy.
“No, that'll be about all, Mr. Burns. Everything okay?” 27:35 · “Who's the beneficiary?” 27:48 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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