Living room
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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 39:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 199–204. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Sam (named at t:40:00): man, middle-aged, dark suit, tie, neat haircut visible, audible
- Mrs. Price (named at t:40:08): woman, middle-aged, patterned dress, short hair visible, audible
- woman, young, light-colored blouse, holding papers visible
- man, older, dark coat, standing in doorway visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit gestures while speaking to a woman holding papers; another man stands in a doorway. [frame:1]
- The man in the suit turns to speak to a woman in a patterned dress. [frame:2]
- The man and woman in the patterned dress face each other, talking. [frame:3]
- The man and woman continue their conversation, standing close. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I'm going to play the part of Red in the Laughing Cowboy program.” 40:13 · “From now on, all I want is a job. a steady job so I can keep my son.” 40:38
- Seen
- bed, chair, papers, doorway, wallpaper
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resolved; themes: sacrifice for family, career disillusionment, economic necessity; style notes: medium close-ups, static camera, studio lighting, domestic set
A man in a suit tells a woman in a patterned dress that he is quitting opera to take a steady acting job to support his son. Another woman and a man are briefly visible in the background as the conversation begins.
“For mercy's sake, what's going on here? Oh, it's all right, Miss Price.” 39:50 · “Mrs. Price, I finally quit kidding myself about Pacelli.” 40:08 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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