Newsroom
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 29:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 124–126. 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
- People
- Bruce (named at t:29:57): man in light suit, dark tie, boutonniere, standing, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
- man seated at desk, wearing glasses, vest over shirt, holding paper, mid-40s, slight build visible, audible
- man in dark suit, standing, mid-30s, average build, seen in frame:3 visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a light suit stands beside a seated man at a desk in an office. [frame:1]
- The standing man and seated man shake hands. [frame:2]
- The standing man speaks to another man in a dark suit who has approached him. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “I'm afraid Hildy will feel ashamed to think she hasn't trusted you.” 30:04 · “Kimmy Hildy Johnson, press room, criminal courts building.” 30:15
- Seen
- desk, typewriter, filing cabinet, telephone, paper, glasses, suit jacket
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: media, deception, professional relationships; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast black and white, office clutter visible
Two men interact in an office; one stands while the other sits at a desk, then they shake hands and speak. One man is instructed to call a woman named Hildy Johnson at the criminal courts building press room.
“You get it? You get it? You get it? Where is it? Come on. Certified? Sure.” 29:48 · “That's for $2,500.” 29:55 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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