Bar
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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:27:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 131 · shots 685–685. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a fedora and dark suit with bow tie, seated, speaking with intensity visible, audible
- John (named at t:88:53): not clearly visible in frame; referenced in dialogue audible, mentioned
- Seen happening
- A man in a fedora speaks emphatically at a bar table. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “I get mad for a guy named Washington.” 89:02 · “This fifth column stuff was pretty rockin', isn't it?” 89:24
- Seen
- fedora, bow tie, glass, dark suit
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, agitated, patriotic; themes: patriotism, political dissent, personal integrity, moral outrage; style notes: close-up shot, high-contrast lighting, dramatic shadows, focused on speaker's face
A man in a fedora and bow tie speaks passionately in a dimly lit bar, referencing historical figures and expressing anger about political matters. Another man, addressed as 'John,' is present but not clearly visible in the single frame provided.
“We should be drinking milk, you know, this stuff is poison.” 88:07 · “Right now, John, I am sizzling.” 88:53 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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