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; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 16:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 24 · shots 142–146. 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:2, frame:4
- People
- John Willoughby (named at t:16:21): man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a worn collared shirt visible, audible
- woman, visible in profile, wearing a dark hat and coat visible, audible
- man, older, balding, seen from behind visible
- man, partially visible behind p3 visible
- Seen happening
- A man looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. [frame:1]
- A plate with food and a glass of milk sit on a table. [frame:2]
- Three people stand in a doorway; one man is seen from behind. [frame:3]
- A woman smiles at the man in the worn shirt. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “John Willoughby. Long John Willoughby. They called me in baseball.” 16:21 · “Would you, uh... Would you like to make some money?” 16:25
- Seen
- plate with food, glass of milk, pen holder, dark hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: identity negotiation, economic exchange, media manipulation; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing
A man named John Willoughby is spoken to by others in an indoor setting; he is offered money. A plate of food and a glass of milk are visible on a table.
“She had a family, though.” 16:09 · “Be less complicated without a family. Look at that face. It's wonderful.” 16:11 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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