Private office
Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 4 · shots 3–5. 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 wearing dark hat and coat, seated at desk visible
- man wearing light cowboy hat and shirt, standing visible
- Mr. Brandt (named at t:1:21): man wearing cowboy hat and patterned vest, standing visible
- man wearing cowboy hat and shirt, standing between p2 and p3 visible
- Seen happening
- A check from The Bank of Chicago is displayed. [frame:3]
- Seen
- check, desk, cowboy hats
- On screen
- {'frame': 3, 'value': 'THE BANK OF CHICAGO\nChicago, Ill.\nJune 15, 1936\nPay to the order of\nSanson Smith\nForty-three hundred dollars\nJ. B. Brandt'}
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral to slightly positive; themes: financial transaction, western attire, business interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, studio lighting
Two men in cowboy hats stand at a counter while a third man sits; a check from The Bank of Chicago is shown. One man thanks Mr. Brandt, and another comments on the season's work.
“Hey, you are boys. Thank you, Mr. Brandt.” 1:21 · “Not bad for a season's work.” 1:25 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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