Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 40:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 359–362. 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:2
- People
- man, middle-aged, wearing a suit, striped tie, and cowboy hat visible
- woman, visible from side, wearing a coat, holding a pistol visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit and cowboy hat stands indoors. [frame:1]
- A woman points a pistol at the man across a desk. [frame:2]
- A convertible car is parked outside a building with illuminated signs reading 'DEAR'. [frame:3]
- The man walks in darkness, holding an object. [frame:4]
- Seen
- cowboy hat [frame:1], pistol [frame:2], desk [frame:2], convertible car [frame:3], signs reading 'DEAR' [frame:3], lamp [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, departure, nocturnal setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and wide shots, high contrast lighting, period costume
A man in a suit and cowboy hat is seen indoors, then a woman points a gun at him across a desk; the scene cuts to a car outside a building with 'DEAR' signs, then to the man walking in darkness. The transcript includes instructions to phone Jim Clancy and a statement that the speaker is leaving.
“Phone Jim Clancy.” 40:08 · “I'm going to go.” 40:14 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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