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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 40:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 313–314. 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
- man with gray hair and mustache, wearing vest and white shirt visible, audible
- man with dark hair, wearing brown jacket visible
- man with gray hair, wearing dark vest and white shirt, back to camera visible
- woman with blonde hair, wearing green dress and yellow hat, reclining visible
- Seen happening
- Two men sit at a chessboard; one stands behind them; a woman reclines nearby. [frame:1]
- A man holds up an oil lamp and looks at it. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Well, looks like I won't have to come into town always to get a game.” 40:08 · “Sure move. Yes, sir.” 40:19
- Seen
- chessboard, oil lamp, painting on wall, wooden chair, green dress, yellow hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational; themes: leisure, social interaction, domestic setting; style notes: medium shots, indoor lighting, static framing, period costume
Two men play chess at a table while a third man stands nearby; a woman in a green dress reclines in a chair. A man with a mustache holds up an oil lamp, looking at it.
“Pretty good.” 40:05 · “Fair?” 40:07 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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