Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:17:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 152 · shots 459–460. 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
- man, middle-aged, wearing a white robe with a dark sash and cape, standing upright visible, audible
- man, younger, wearing a white robe with a light cape, standing with hands on hips visible, audible
- woman, wearing a dark, form-fitting uniform with a belt and short hair visible
- Also said
- “You realize there's an even chance of never coming back alive.” 77:14 · “And the son of a friend of yours?” 77:31
- Seen
- futuristic desk [frame:2], transparent table with model [frame:2], sash and cape robes [frame:1], uniform with belt [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, tense; themes: sacrifice, duty, futurism, authority; style notes: high-contrast studio lighting, symmetrical framing, minimalist set design with clean lines and reflective surfaces
Two men in futuristic robes speak in a minimalist, brightly lit interior while a woman in uniform stands nearby. One man asks to be selected for a dangerous lunar mission, citing personal connection and youth.
“You want to talk to me? Forgive me, sir. I came straight to you.” 77:01 · “I want to be one of the first two human beings to go around the moon.” 77:07 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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