Day nursery
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 56:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 317–319. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- day nursery (other, interior) evidence: t:57:04
- People
- man in dark suit and tie, short dark hair visible
- woman wearing dark hat and coat, light-colored scarf, medium build visible
- woman in dark uniform or dress, short dark hair, holding a baby wrapped in white visible
- child in dark dress and white collar, standing near table with abacus visible
- children seated at tables in background, indistinct visible
- Seen happening
- A man and a woman stand beside a caregiver holding a baby. [frame:1]
- A child stands near a table with an abacus in a room with other children seated. [frame:2]
- The man and woman look at the baby being held by the caregiver. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “all except this lovely little girl.” 57:04
- Seen
- baby wrapped in white blanket, abacus on table, wooden chairs and tables, dark hat and coat, dark suit and tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and contemplative; themes: parenthood, child welfare, institutional care; style notes: medium shots with studio lighting, focused on character interaction; framing emphasizes the baby and the adults’ attention toward it
A man and a woman stand with a caregiver holding a baby in what appears to be a day nursery; children are visible in the background. The transcript indicates the setting is a day nursery and mentions a 'lovely little girl' as the only child without parents.
“Well, how about him?” 56:56 · “This is a day nursery. All these youngsters have parents.” 56:58 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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