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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:37:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 136 · shots 730–732. 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 a trench coat and tie, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
- older man, balding, in a suit and tie, seated, smoking a cigar visible, audible
- man in a suit, seated at a long table with others visible
- man in a suit, seated at a long table visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a trench coat stands and addresses a seated man. [frame:1]
- A group of men in suits are seated at a long dinner table. [frame:2]
- The man in the trench coat is shown in close-up, speaking with intensity. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “You sit there back at your big cigars and think of deliberately killing an idea that's made millions of people a little bit happier.” 97:23 · “An idea that's brought thousands of them here from all over the country.” 97:30
- Seen
- trench coat, cigar, long dinner table with place settings, formal suits
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict between idealism and power, the value of popular movements, personal confrontation in a formal setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, dramatic lighting focusing on the speaker's face, formal attire suggests a serious setting
A man in a trench coat stands and speaks passionately to a seated man in a suit, while a wider shot shows a formal dinner gathering. The speaker accuses the seated man of trying to kill a popular idea that has drawn people from across the country.
“Well, that certainly is a new loan.” 97:15 · “I guess I've seen everything now.” 97:19 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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