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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 18:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 25 · shots 170–173. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in light uniform shirt with badge, dark tie, short hair visible, audible
- Slim Adams (named at t:18:09): older man in dark suit, fedora, tie, smiling visible, audible
- Mr. Kearney (named at t:18:04): man in uniform with cap, standing near door visible
- Seen happening
- The men begin to move toward the door. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I get it. They're shipping the national debt through here in gold bars.” 18:16 · “Let's go and check that car you hired.” 18:23
- Seen
- window blinds, uniform cap, fedora hat, desk with paper, wall map
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: authority, secrecy, bureaucratic procedure; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, mid-century office setting
Two men in uniform and one in a suit and hat are in an office; one uniformed man is introduced as a Secret Service agent. They discuss a car and prepare to leave the room.
“Ah, this is Mr. Kearney, special agent in the Treasury Department, Secret Service.” 18:04 · “Kearney, Slim Adams, one of my deputies.” 18:09 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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