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; 5 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 10:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 36–37. 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 standing, wearing vest and tie, holding phone receiver visible, audible
- man seated, dark suit, facing p1 visible
- man standing in doorway, dark suit visible
- woman seated at desk, light dress visible
- man seated, light shirt, visible in background visible
- Seen happening
- Two men rehearse a physical act involving jumping and positioning. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Gee, you know, Phil, Mrs. Smith says she's gonna throw us out of the boarding house unless we have our rent by next week.” 11:03 · “How good are you boys? How good? We're a wow every place we play.” 11:16
- Seen
- telephone receiver, desk with papers, staircase, framed portrait on wall, lamp on table
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and confrontational; themes: moral crusade, economic hardship, performance and rehearsal; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged blocking
A man on the phone orders a crusade against vice after police raid a roadhouse; another scene shows a boarding house where tenants face eviction and two men rehearse a physical act. No names are spoken that can be assigned to visible individuals.
“Come out, girls. It's the police.” 10:02 · “From now on, our policy is a crusade against vice.” 10:35 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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