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; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 38:19 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 12 · shots 157–157. 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 in dark suit and hat, seated, smoking visible
- man in vest and tie, standing, holding phone to ear visible
- man in dark suit, seated at table, facing camera visible
- man in dark suit, seated at table, back to camera visible
- man in dark suit, seated at table, side profile visible
- man in dark suit, standing near table visible
- Hildy Johnson (named at t:38:41): unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- A man stands holding a phone receiver to his ear while others sit around a table. [frame:1]
- Men are seated around a table, one smoking, others appearing to play cards. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “- Hildy Johnson?” 38:41 · “- You guys want to play any more cards? - I ain't that good. I see yous. I can't win anyway.” 38:48
- Seen
- telephone, table, chairs, cards, lamp, hat, suit, vest
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: communication, waiting, group dynamics, workplace; style notes: medium shot, black and white, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes
A group of men are gathered in a room with one standing and others seated around a table; one man speaks on the phone while others discuss playing cards. The transcript includes lines about not being listened to and a mention of Hildy Johnson.
“Why won't they listen to me?” 38:18 · “*pain*” 38:33 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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