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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 21:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 23 · shots 177–181. 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 light suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
- man in light suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
- man seated, dark suit, balding, older visible
- Mr. McLeod (named at t:21:51): man in tuxedo, bow tie, older, heavier build visible
- Seen happening
- Two men in suits face each other and speak. [frame:1]
- The two men turn away from each other; a man in a tuxedo is visible in the background. [frame:2]
- The two men stand facing each other again, with a seated man and the tuxedo man nearby. [frame:3]
- The man in the light suit stands with hands clasped; the tuxedo man looks on. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “For the past six months, Miss Montay has been suffering from an acute form of schizophrenia.” 21:35 · “A friend, Mr. McLeod, is a Harvard man.” 21:51
- Seen
- lamp, chair, couch, tuxedo, suit
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and clinical; themes: mental illness, identity confusion, social class (Harvard reference); style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir
Two men in suits discuss a woman's mental condition while a third man observes; a fourth man in a tuxedo stands nearby. The dialogue references schizophrenia and changing identities, with one man identified as a Harvard friend.
“But she just told me she was his niece.” 21:28 · “Last week she was his little sister. It is not funny, Major.” 21:30 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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