Nbc building exterior and studio interior
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 39:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 355–358. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- NBC building exterior and studio interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
- People
- woman with dark hair, wearing dark dress with white collar, holding telephone receiver visible, audible
- crowd of men in suits and hats, mostly older, inside a studio visible
- Seen happening
- The woman is seen writing while on the phone. [frame:2]
- The woman smiles while on the phone. [frame:3]
- A crowd is gathered inside a room labeled 'STUDIO'. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Sorry, no more tickets left.” 40:06
- Seen
- telephone receiver, pen and paper, NBC building sign, STUDIO sign, crowd of men in suits
- On screen
- JOHN DOE TO-NIGHT 9 P.M.
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and busy; themes: media, public demand, broadcasting; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups on the woman, wide shot of the crowd, studio sign visible
A woman on the phone reports that tickets for the John Doe broadcast are sold out; exterior and interior shots show the NBC building and a crowded studio. The woman is seen writing and then smiling while on the call, and the crowd is visible inside a room marked 'STUDIO'.
“No, I'm sorry. Tickets for the broadcast are all gone.” 40:00 · “phone the bulletin.” 40:05 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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