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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 30:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 99 · shots 393–395. 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 dark uniform, standing, hands on hips, young adult visible
- John Burnt Smith (named at t:30:40): older man in light uniform with hat, standing, gesturing, heavier build visible, audible
- man lying on bed, wearing uniform, face partially visible visible
- Mr Carson (named at t:30:49): man seated, wearing uniform, holding object visible
- Seen happening
- A man in uniform stands over a man lying on a bed. [frame:2]
- A man in uniform gestures with his hand while speaking to another seated man. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “I'll be arrest taken. Now, look, John Burnt Smith, I've tried to be nice to you. I've tried to cooperate with you. But if I catch arrest taken again, I've got to throw you in the guardhouse!” 30:40 · “You coming Mr Carson.” 30:49
- Seen
- uniforms [frame:1], bed [frame:1], hat [frame:1], belt with badge [frame:1], door [frame:1], window [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: authority and discipline, military or police setting, conflict between characters; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged interior set
Two men in uniform are in a room with a third man lying on a bed; one standing man speaks to the other while gesturing. A name 'John Burnt Smith' is mentioned in the dialogue, and another man is addressed as 'Mr Carson'.
“Cooper.” 30:34 · “That bodacious, idiot, era, lunk, hay. Hey, what are you doing here?” 30:35 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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