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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 20:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 183–184. 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, frame:2
- People
- older man with mustache, wearing dark suit and fedora visible
- younger man, wearing light vest, bow tie, fedora, hand on p1's shoulder visible
- man in light suit and fedora, holding cigars visible
- man in dark suit and fedora, receiving cigar visible
- man in dark suit and fedora, standing in background visible
- Seen happening
- A man places his hand on another man's shoulder. [frame:1]
- Three men exchange cigars in a room with framed pictures. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Why, that 50 bucks in your pocket's beginning to show up on you already. And don't pull that on me neither.” 20:36 · “Stop worrying, Colonel. I want to get my arm fixed out of this. Hey, here's some cigars of bar sandlots.” 20:41
- Seen
- fedora hats [frame:1, frame:2], suits and vests [frame:1, frame:2], cigars [frame:2], framed pictures on wall [frame:2], lamp [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social class, personal change, urban life; style notes: medium close-ups and medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing
Two men in hats are shown in a room; one places a hand on the other's shoulder. Later, three men in suits and hats are in a room with framed pictures, exchanging cigars. A transcript mentions the Columbia River, an elevator, and a Colonel.
“You know, we were headed for the Columbia River country before all this John Doe business came up. You remember that, don't you? Sure, I remember.” 20:23 · “Say, is your ears pop coming up in the elevator? Mine did. Oh, Long John, I tell you, it's no good. You're gonna get used to a lot of stuff that's gonna wreck you.” 20:30 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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