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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; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 9:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 98–101. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
- People
- young boy, dark skin, wearing a light-colored short-sleeved shirt, looking downcast visible
- Pat (named at t:10:00): adult, visible only from the knees down in frame:2 and frame:4, wearing dark pants and dark shoes visible
- Seen happening
- A boy is shown looking downcast in a dim room. [frame:1]
- An adult's legs and feet are visible, standing in the room. [frame:2]
- The boy is shown again, now with his arms crossed, still looking downcast. [frame:3]
- A low-angle shot shows the adult's feet and the boy's bare foot on the floor. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Get up there, Pat, Hastings.” 10:00 · “...licking after Lord's Noel's quest, same as your low count mother used to do.” 10:03
- Seen
- light-colored short-sleeved shirt [frame:1], dark pants [frame:2], dark shoes [frame:4], bare foot [frame:4]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and reprimanding; themes: child discipline, parental authority, childhood shame; style notes: black-and-white, close-ups on the boy's face and low-angle shots of feet, high contrast lighting
A boy in a light shirt is shown in close-up, looking downcast, while an adult's legs and feet are visible in a low-angle shot. The transcript includes scolding dialogue directed at a boy named Pat, mentioning hauling him home and comparing him to his mother.
“Same old buzzer.” 9:49 · “Get up those steps, you little good-for-nothing!” 9:56 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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