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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 26:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 47 · shots 220–225. 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
- woman, mid-20s, light-colored dress with lace collar, dark hair styled in waves visible
- older man, grey hair and beard, wearing a dark robe with diamond patterns and a rope belt visible
- man, 30s-40s, wearing a light shirt and dark neckerchief, seated visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A woman and an older man stand facing a seated man. [frame:1]
- The older man leans toward the seated man while the woman looks on. [frame:2]
- The seated man looks up with a surprised expression. [frame:3]
- The seated man maintains his surprised expression. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Stand on your feet, you lying buzzard!” 26:54 · “It's again my principles to shoot a man sitting down. You don't have to take my word for it.” 26:57
- Seen
- lamp, wall-mounted telephone, wall clock, wooden door, robed garment with diamond patterns, neckerchief
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: confrontation, accusation, evidence and truth; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera framing focused on character reactions
A woman and an older man confront a seated man in a room; the seated man denies knowledge of others' whereabouts, prompting an accusation of lying and a threat to shoot him if he stands. The transcript mentions film evidence of the events.
“Mr. Morland and all the others. Don't just sit there and say something. What happened? Where are they?” 26:41 · “How do I know where they are? What do I know about the Badlands? You mean they took Roy and the rest of the boys away too?” 26:46 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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