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; 11 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 34:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 144–144. 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
- man, dark suit, hat, seated at table visible
- man, light shirt, vest, seated at table visible
- man, dark suit, hat, seated at table, writing visible
- man, dark suit, hat, seated at table, smoking visible
- Earl (named at t:34:55): man, plaid shirt, mustache, previously visible through fence mentioned
- Hildy (named at t:35:00): woman, not visible in frame mentioned
- Walter Brunzel (named at t:35:00): man, not visible in frame mentioned
- Bill Fenton (named at t:35:00): man, not visible in frame mentioned
- Bruce (named at t:35:23): man, not visible in frame mentioned
- Mac (named at t:35:13): man, not visible in frame mentioned
- Stairway Sam (named at t:35:17): man, not visible in frame mentioned
- Seen happening
- Men sit around a table in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Three land ladies, boys. He had well, didn't he? Right-o. I wonder what the post's gonna do without Hildy. Yeah, do you suppose Walter Brunzel ever let her go? No, no. Remember what he did to Bill Fenton when he wanted to go to Hollywood? Had him thrown in jail for arson. Orchery. Orchery.” 35:00 · “- Here's Stairway Sam. - Huh? - Would you mind turning on some lights? - Sure. It's dark, you can't see anything in this place.” 35:17
- Seen
- table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], typewriters [frame:1], hats [frame:1], cigarette [frame:1], ashtray [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational, slightly nostalgic; themes: media industry, professional loyalty, gender roles, departure and transition; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, studio set
A group of men sit around a table in a dimly lit room, discussing Hildy Johnson's departure and upcoming marriage. One man asks for lights to be turned on, noting the room is too dark to see.
“I guess that's all. I like talking to you. Goodbye, Miss Johnson.” 34:49 · “Goodbye Earl.” 34:55 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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