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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 38:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 130–132. 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
- man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing dark suit and tie visible
- woman, blonde, wearing dark dress, standing visible
- woman, dark hair, wearing light-colored jacket, seated at desk visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit looks toward the camera. [frame:1]
- A man and two women stand in a room with a desk and chairs. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Oh, somebody planted some Mark money on him.” 38:35 · “The poor kid hasn't any money for a bond or a lawyer.” 38:45
- Seen
- suit [frame:1], desk [frame:3], chair [frame:3], curtains [frame:3], picture frame on wall [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and concerned; themes: injustice, legal trouble, financial hardship; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up and medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire
A man in a suit is shown in close-up, then a wider shot reveals him standing with two women in a room with furniture. The transcript discusses a boyfriend in jail framed with marked money and lacking funds for bond or a lawyer.
“The drama's pretty low.” 38:30 · “Her boyfriend's in jail. In jail? In jail?” 38:31 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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