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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 31:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 42 · shots 270–274. 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, frame:3, frame:4
- People
- Ted Sheldon (named at t:31:08): man, middle-aged, heavyset, wearing a light-colored suit and tie visible, audible
- Miss Mitchell (named at t:31:08): woman, young, wearing a dark hat and dark coat visible, audible
- man, middle-aged, wearing a dark uniform with insignia visible
- Seen happening
- A man in uniform enters the room and speaks to the man in the suit. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “All right, Casanova, I'll give you a break.” 31:16 · “See that Miss Mitchell gets a car to take her home.” 31:18
- Seen
- lamp, bookshelves, small statue of a horse, window with panes
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: social hierarchy, introduction and protocol, materialism; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, formal framing with characters positioned to emphasize dialogue
A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a hat in an interior room with bookshelves and a lamp; another man in uniform enters and speaks. The transcript includes introductions and a directive to provide transport for the woman.
“A hundred dollars? - That's only the beginning.” 31:02 · “Oh, I knew it. Hello. Hello. Whenever there's a pretty woman around. This is my nephew Ted Sheldon, Miss Mitchell. How do you do? How do you do?” 31:08 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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