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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 36:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 123–127. 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:3
- People
- woman, dark hair, wearing a dark hat and light-colored jacket visible, audible
- man, dark hair, wearing a suit and tie, looking out a window visible
- Jim (named at t:37:21): man, mustache, wearing a fedora and suit, seated at a desk with a telephone visible, audible
- John (named at t:37:23): man, mustache, wearing a fedora and suit, holding a telephone receiver to his ear visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man looks out a window while the woman speaks. [frame:2]
- A man named Jim is on the phone at a desk. [frame:3]
- The man on the phone, now identified as John, continues the conversation. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Hello, Belle.” 37:21 · “John, I've shown up yet?” 37:23
- Seen
- telephone, desk, fedora, suit
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: financial desperation, social class, communication via telephone; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, period telephone equipment
A woman speaks to a man named Phil about seeking financial help from Mrs. Harris, who owns a shop. A man named Jim, later identified as John, is on the phone, discussing whether Mrs. Harris obtained a bond and arranging to meet.
“Mrs. Harris that owns that shop, she has plenty of money. I bet she could help us.” 36:43 · “I'm so sorry I can't help your darling with any money. I know it looks like that I'm rich.” 37:02 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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