Jail
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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 21:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 156–158. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Mr. Withers (named at t:21:30): older man with white hair, wearing a dark suit, visible behind bars visible
- man in dark suit and bowler hat, back to camera, standing in front of bars visible
- man in cowboy hat and patterned shirt, visible on left visible
- Mr. Thornton (named at t:21:42): man in cowboy hat and jacket, visible on right visible
- woman with dark hair, partially visible behind bars visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a bowler hat stands before bars while others gather around. [frame:1]
- The older man behind bars speaks to the group, including the woman beside him. [frame:2]
- The group continues to face the barred area, with the man in the cowboy hat looking toward the others. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “That's a lot of money, Mr. Withers. I'm well aware of it, sir.” 21:38 · “But Mr. Thornton here...” 21:42
- Seen
- metal bars, bowler hat, cowboy hats, dark suit, patterned shirt
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: financial transaction, confinement, witnessed agreement; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, confined framing behind bars
A man named Mr. Withers is present at a transaction involving one thousand dollars, with another man, Mr. Thornton, mentioned as a witness. The scene takes place behind bars, with several people visible and one woman partially seen through the bars.
“Please, let me make it out for you, Mr. Withers. You can sign. As you will.” 21:30 · “One thousand dollars.” 21:35 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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