Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 2:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 38–41. 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
- butler (named at t:2:24): large man, wearing black butler's uniform with white shirt front and bow tie, black top hat visible
- smaller man, wearing grey suit, black hat, and glasses visible, audible
- small man with green head and red shoes, seen from behind visible
- Seen happening
- The butler runs away from the smaller man in the suit. [frame:1]
- The butler stumbles while running. [frame:2]
- The small green-headed man runs down a hallway. [frame:3]
- The butler hides behind a door. [frame:4]
- Seen
- wooden crate with green contents, wooden stool, wooden door, wall-mounted lamp, blue armchair
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and comedic; themes: chase, disguise, pursuit; style notes: cartoon animation with exaggerated motion, flat lighting, and stylized interiors
A chase occurs inside a building where a large man in a butler's uniform flees while being pursued. A smaller man in a suit shouts after him, and the butler is later seen running down a hallway and hiding behind a door.
“Just as I thought. It's the butler.” 2:24 · “Come back here, you crook!” 2:28 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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