Shop
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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 31:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 154–157. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
- People
- older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated behind a counter visible, audible
- younger man, wearing a dark suit, tie, and fedora, standing at the counter visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit sits behind a counter in a shop. [frame:1]
- A man in a hat and suit stands at the counter holding a radio. [frame:2]
- The two men face each other across the counter with the radio between them. [frame:3]
- The seated man gestures while speaking to the standing man. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Take the boys' radio.” 31:36 · “Oh, I'll be back for it, don't worry.” 31:44
- Seen
- radio [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], counter [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], guitar [frame:1], lamp [frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], tennis rackets [frame:4], shelves with various items [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense negotiation; themes: commerce, trust, everyday objects as plot devices; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films, cluttered set design
A man in a suit and hat stands at a counter in a cluttered shop, speaking with an older man seated behind it. The standing man handles a radio while the seated man watches and responds, with dialogue indicating a transaction or borrowing of the radio.
“Wait a minute.” 31:28 · “Wait a minute.” 31:30 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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