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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 26:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 87 · shots 252–255. 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:4
- People
- silhouetted figure in foreground, wearing dark clothing, seen from behind visible
- distant figure seated at a desk, visible through a doorway visible
- Seen happening
- A person looks at decorative objects on a table. [frame:1]
- The person continues to examine objects, including a framed picture. [frame:2]
- A close-up of a decorative plate with a painted scene. [frame:3]
- The silhouetted person is seen from behind, with another figure visible in the background through a doorway. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “More feds.” 26:23 · “Because if that's what you're looking for, you better look someplace else.” 26:27
- Seen
- decorative plate with painted scene, framed picture, woven basket, lace doily, desk
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspicious; themes: confrontation, surveillance, value of objects; style notes: high-contrast black and white, silhouetted figures, close-ups on objects, shallow depth of field
A person examines decorative objects in a dimly lit interior, with another figure visible in the background through a doorway. Spoken lines suggest a tense or confrontational exchange about an object and the presence of federal agents.
“See a thing like that?” 26:13 · “This isn't flawless.” 26:18 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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