Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 13:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 203–204. 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, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a dark jacket, holding a small cannon-like device visible, audible
- woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a light-colored dress with puffed sleeves, curly hair visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Man holds up a small cannon-like device and points it forward. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “I'm taking it to the army.” 13:56 · “- Peach tree and bloom. - Will ya?” 14:03
- Seen
- small cannon-like device [frame:1], wooden shelf with objects [frame:1], feathered hat or decoration [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and comedic; themes: romantic proposal, invention and entrepreneurship, wartime context; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera framing
A man holds a small cannon-like device while speaking to a woman in a dimly lit interior; he says he will take it to the army and they will marry when it is bought. The woman reacts with surprise and then listens as he speaks.
“With this you can shoot a cannon as straight as you can a squirrel gun.” 13:51 · “Why, you be a-tankin' it.” 13:55 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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