Jail
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; 2 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 38:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 37–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man, middle-aged, wearing fedora, suit, tie, open-mouthed singing visible, audible
- partially visible, dark suit, standing behind bars visible
- Seen happening
- A man sings with exaggerated expression in front of jail bars. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Now try it again and put in some gestures.” 39:02 · “When Johnny doots his horn” 39:05
- Seen
- jail bars, fedora hat, suit and tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: comic frustration; themes: rehearsal, resistance to authority, musical performance in confinement; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, theatrical expression, static camera
A man in a fedora and suit sings animatedly in front of bars, while transcript lines indicate a rehearsal of a song about Johnny tooting his horn and breaking the law. The dialogue includes complaints about music and being forced to improve, ending with instructions to add gestures.
“When Johnny toots his horn.” 38:43 · “Disturbing the police, the breaking of the law, and you gotta get out. - No, no, no. - It's outrageous, outrageous.” 38:46 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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