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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:24:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 146 · shots 307–309. 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
- older man, balding, wearing dark suit and tie, seated visible
- man in dark fedora and overcoat, back to camera visible
- Walter Williams (named at t:84:41): man in suit, standing in doorway, holding hat visible
- woman in dark coat and hat, partially visible visible
- man in hat, holding newspaper on street visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit sits at a desk speaking. [frame:1]
- A man in a fedora stands near a doorway where another man and a woman are present. [frame:2]
- A newspaper vendor on a city street shouts about Walter Williams. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “We just couldn't buy that yarn you tried to sell us.” 84:52 · “Let's go. Walter Williams, go after you get your paper. Read about it. Walter Williams, go after you. Read about it. Extra, extra. Watch me.” 84:55
- Seen
- desk, fedora hat, newspaper, clock tower, streetcar, vintage car
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: suspicion and accusation, media sensationalism, legal confrontation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups in office, wide shot of street; high-contrast lighting typical of film noir
A man in a suit is seated in an office while another man in a fedora stands nearby; later, a street scene shows a newspaper vendor shouting about Walter Williams. The transcript indicates Williams is being held on suspicion of murder and that his story was not believed.
“We're going to hold you too, Williams.” 84:32 · “Suspicion of murder.” 84:38 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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