Private office
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; 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 30:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 338–340. 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 cowboy hat, dark shirt, and belt with gun holster visible, audible
- boy wearing patterned shirt and dark pants visible, audible
- Rogers (named at t:30:40): man named Rogers, mentioned but not visible mentioned
- Trigger (named at t:30:40): character named Trigger, mentioned but not visible mentioned
- Seen happening
- The man leaves the room after threatening the boy. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “If you ever crack one word, I'll shoot your head off.” 30:57 · “Don't try and holler for help, 'cause I'll be right outside the door.” 31:05
- Seen
- cowboy hat [frame:1], gun holster [frame:1], wall-mounted lamps [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and threatening; themes: intimidation, silence under threat, power imbalance; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on characters, use of shadows to heighten drama
A man in a cowboy hat threatens a boy and another man named Rogers, warning them not to speak or call for help. The man then leaves the room, which is dimly lit with wall-mounted lamps.
“Kill him!” 30:37 · “You don't want something to happen to trigger in your friend Rogers, you're going to keep your little mouth shut.” 30:40 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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