Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 9:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 32–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- older man with white hair, wearing dark jacket, seated at table visible, audible
- woman in light blouse, seated at table, gesturing visible, audible
- man in light shirt, seated at table, looking toward p1 visible, audible
- Also said
- “What do you want him to do, send us back?” 9:24 · “Oh, tell Casey to open it up and read it to me.” 9:26
- Seen
- telegram [frame:1], checkered tablecloth [frame:1], glassware and silverware on table [frame:1], curtains in background [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense anticipation; themes: official communication, family dynamics, uncertainty; style notes: static medium shot, low-key lighting, high contrast black-and-white, intimate framing around table
Three people sit at a table in a dimly lit room as one of them is handed a telegram from Washington; the recipient expresses surprise and asks another person to read it aloud. The scene includes a table set with glassware and a checkered tablecloth, and the characters are engaged in dialogue about the telegram.
“Telegram just arrived at the Rockwood office. It's for you, Dad, from Washington.” 9:18 · “Washington? I don't know anybody in Washington.” 9:22 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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