Apartment
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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 5:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 2 · shots 5–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- apartment (private office, interior) evidence: t:6:04
- People
- woman with blonde hair, wearing a collared jacket visible, audible
- Steve (named at t:5:53): unseen, referred to as Steve audible, mentioned
- Bill (named at t:7:17): unseen, referred to as Bill audible, mentioned
- Owen Waterbury (named at t:5:38): unseen, referred to as Owen Waterbury mentioned
- Seen happening
- The woman is visible in a medium close-up, smiling slightly. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Remember, Bill, if he says one word that's out of line, just one word, I want you to bop him right on the jaw.” 7:34 · “I've come for my things. And what's the objection?” 8:14
- Seen
- collared jacket, bag
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: determined and slightly anxious; themes: ambition, gender roles, professional transition; style notes: medium close-up framing, studio lighting, black-and-white film aesthetic
A woman prepares to leave for a job with Owen Waterbury, discussing her ambitions and receiving support from a colleague named Steve. She arrives at Waterbury's apartment with a driver named Bill, giving him instructions to protect her if needed.
“So you're really going to work for Owen Waterbury?” 5:38 · “Well, his personnel manager said in his apartment.” 6:04 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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