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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 59:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 232–236. 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, frame:2
- People
- woman, dark hair, wearing a dark coat over a light blouse, holding a telephone receiver visible
- man, light shirt, dark trousers, holding a small object (possibly a cigarette or pen), entering through a doorway visible
- Seen happening
- Woman looks startled and turns toward the man. [frame:2]
- Man stands near a desk with newspapers, holding a small object. [frame:3]
- Woman lowers the phone receiver slightly, looking alarmed. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Never mind.” 59:06 · “You're not gonna tell anybody where I am.” 59:09
- Seen
- telephone, desk with newspapers, overhead lamp, coat rack
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, communication, control; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots emphasizing character reactions, static camera framing
A woman in a dark coat holds a telephone receiver while a man in a light shirt and dark trousers enters the room and tells her to drop the phone. The woman appears startled and looks toward the man as he approaches.
“Hello operator Hildy Johnson. Will you get me?” 59:02 · “Drop that phone.” 59:05 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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