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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 36:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 313–317. 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 in baseball cap, light-colored uniform, holding glove visible
- man in fedora, dark suit, seated visible
- man in fedora, dark suit, standing, gesturing visible
- Seen happening
- Man in baseball cap gestures while holding glove. [frame:1]
- Man in fedora looks upward with expression of frustration. [frame:2]
- Man in fedora gestures with hand near chest. [frame:3]
- Man in baseball cap adjusts glove. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Butterfingers!” 36:34 · “Tough luck, pal.” 36:36
- Seen
- baseball glove [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:2], baseball cap [frame:4], double doors [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and frustrated; themes: sports failure, interpersonal tension, blame; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, expressive gestures
A man in a baseball cap and uniform gestures while holding a glove; another man in a fedora reacts with frustration. The transcript includes sports-related exclamations about a dropped ball and tough luck.
“What was that, a single?” 36:30 · “First placement dropped the ball.” 36:32 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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