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; 4 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 1:30:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 154 · shots 331–333. 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 with dark hair, wearing a dark coat and hat, visible in frame:1 visible
- man in dark suit, seen from back in frame:1 and frame:2 visible
- man with mustache, wearing light shirt, visible in frame:3 visible
- woman with dark hair, seen behind mesh screen in frame:2 visible
- Seen happening
- Three men stand in a dim room, one facing two others. [frame:1]
- A man looks at a woman behind a mesh screen. [frame:2]
- A man with a mustache smiles slightly. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Has she offended the honorable police? Oh no!” 91:17 · “Sue Ed, untruth is not good for soul.” 91:42
- Seen
- mesh screen [frame:2], dark coat and hat [frame:1], light shirt [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: moral conflict, official inquiry, cultural barriers; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, high contrast lighting, static camera
Three men speak in a dimly lit interior while one man is seen behind a mesh screen; a man with a mustache is shown in close-up. The dialogue concerns a search for a woman named Su Ling Chung and mentions police, a Mr. Williams, and moral advice about truth and kindness.
“I hope the council has given us the right lead.” 90:43 · “We're looking for Su Ling Chung. The Chinese council said you were her uncle. Then why tell us where she is?” 91:09 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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