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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 19:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 180–186. 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:1
- People
- Dad (named at t:19:24): older man, bald, wearing light-colored shirt visible, audible
- boy, dark hair, wearing plaid shirt visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A man plugs in an electrical device that sparks. [frame:2]
- Smoke erupts from the device, startling the man. [frame:3]
- The man and boy stand together as the man speaks about voltage. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “I guess maybe you better call Judd, huh? Oh, honestly.” 19:33 · “How much is 5,000 volts? - Enough. - To kill you?” 19:40
- Seen
- electrical device with sparks, potted plant, framed pictures on wall, curtains
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and slightly comedic; themes: parent-child interaction, accidental danger, electrical experimentation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, domestic setting with visible props
A man and a boy are in a room with electrical equipment; the man plugs in a device that sparks and emits smoke, prompting concern from the boy and a comment about voltage. The setting includes framed pictures and a potted plant, and dialogue references calling someone named Judd.
“Ready, boy? Plug in.” 19:21 · “Dad! Dad, are you all right? Well, I guess I'm all right. It's because you're scaring the parents off me, that's all. Golly, look at this!” 19:24 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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