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; 6 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 38:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 108 · shots 475–477. 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
- older man in military uniform with cap, seated, facing right visible
- man in military uniform with cap, seated, hands clasped visible
- man in military uniform with cap, seated with back to camera visible
- man in military uniform with cap, seated on right visible
- Sergeant Cooper (named at t:38:55): man in military uniform with cap, standing and entering room visible
- unseen speaker audible
- Seen happening
- Sergeant Cooper enters the room and approaches seated officers. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Sergeant Cooper reporting with the range finder, sir.” 38:55 · “Send him in.” 38:58
- Seen
- military uniforms [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], door [frame:1], windows [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and procedural; themes: military protocol, technical discussion, hierarchical command; style notes: medium shot, static camera, studio lighting, black and white, military setting
Four men in military uniforms are seated in a room; one enters and reports to an officer. A voice discusses tank speed and range calculation, then acknowledges the report.
“With a tank moving at 35 miles an hour, you can see how important automatic range calculation would be.” 38:47 · “Yes.” 38:54 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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