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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 37:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 457–461. 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 soldier's uniform, cap, light shirt, dark trousers, standing near mirror visible, audible
- man in hat, vest, tie, light shirt, dark trousers, standing with hands in pockets visible
- woman with curled hair, light dress, standing near clothing rack visible
- Seen happening
- The man in uniform practices a salute while looking in a mirror. [frame:1]
- The woman speaks, looking concerned. [frame:2]
- The three people stand together, discussing a plan. [frame:3]
- The man in uniform turns away from the mirror, preparing to leave. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Look it's worth the risk if we get that range finder.” 37:14 · “Your shorts in Cooper's office?” 37:20
- Seen
- mirror, clothing rack with shirts and hats, soldier's uniform and cap, woman's light dress, man's vest and hat
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: disguise, espionage, collaboration; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, period costume
Three people are in a room with clothing racks; one is dressed in a soldier's uniform and speaks about impersonating a soldier to obtain a range finder. Another person mentions having spoken to a hillbilly and Cooper, and refers to shorts being in Cooper's office.
“Think I'll pass for a soldier?” 37:05 · “I don't know. That salute's pretty foamy. I'll get by.” 37:07 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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