Living room
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; 2 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 1:21:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 127 · shots 675–676. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- woman seated, dark dress, mid-adult, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
- man seated, light jacket, mid-adult, visible in frame:2 visible, audible
- Also said
- “He's a nice man, isn't he?” 81:59 · “He's done an awful lot for the...” 82:03
- Seen
- lamp [frame:2], sofa [frame:2], fireplace [frame:2], table [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite, slightly tense; themes: social obligation, absence, reputation; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, classic 1940s framing with furniture anchoring the composition
A woman speaks while seated in a living room; a man is also present. The dialogue mentions someone leaving to go to Mr. Norton's house and refers to Mr. Norton as a nice man who has done a lot.
“I'm terribly sorry she isn't here.” 81:41 · “No, she just left. I'm surprised she didn't run into her. She went over to Mr. Norton's house.” 81:45 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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