Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 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 45:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 133 · shots 479–482. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
- People
- Miss Roberts (named at t:45:08): woman wearing a light-colored suit and a white hat or headpiece, dark skin, mid-adult visible, audible
- man wearing a dark jacket, light skin, mid-adult, seen from back or side visible
- boy wearing a sleeveless shirt, dark skin, young, standing in doorway visible
- figure in dark clothing, partially obscured, seen from behind visible
- Seen happening
- A woman holds a bowl in her hands. [frame:1]
- The woman speaks to a man seated across from her. [frame:2]
- The man leans over a table while the woman stands beside him. [frame:3]
- A boy stands in a doorway, looking toward another figure in the background. [frame:4]
- Seen
- bowl, table, doorway
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: revelation, confrontation, childhood; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing
A woman holds a bowl while speaking to a man; later, a boy stands in a doorway as another figure watches from behind. The dialogue references telling Donald facts after Miss Roberts mentioned the bowl.
“When Miss Roberts told me about the bowl, I decided it was time to tell Donald the facts.” 45:08 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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