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; 2 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 46:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 124 · shots 563–568. 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
- Mr. Last (named at t:46:40): man in dark military-style uniform with peaked cap, insignia on collar and sleeve, belt with buckle visible, audible
- man in lighter uniform with wide-brimmed hat, sergeant stripes on sleeve, standing at attention visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Two men in uniform stand facing each other in an office. [frame:1]
- The man in the hat turns to face the other man. [frame:2]
- The man in the hat speaks with a surprised expression. [frame:3]
- The man in the peaked cap turns toward a door, casting a shadow. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I've chased yard bird Smith all through those mountains.” 46:48 · “That'll be all, sir.” 47:00
- Seen
- military uniform, peaked cap, wide-brimmed hat, desk, chair, map on wall, door
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: military authority, pursuit and failure, bureaucratic interaction; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal props
Two men in military-style uniforms converse in an office; one is addressed as 'Mr. Last' and mentions chasing 'Yardbird Smith' without catching him. The interaction concludes with an order to retrieve something, followed by a farewell.
“Mr. Last draw.” 46:40 · “You don't need yard bird Smith.” 46:42 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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