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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 9:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 27 · shots 78–79. 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, frame:2
- People
- man in plaid shirt and vest, holding a hat, standing visible
- Mr. Whalen (named at t:9:44): man in light shirt, seated at desk, looking up visible
- Seen happening
- A man stands holding a hat in front of a sign reading 'ROBERT WEYLAN SILVER CREEK ENTERPRISES'. [frame:1]
- A man in a plaid shirt stands facing a seated man at a desk with a patterned wall behind them. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “But you can't use any means you like to get it out.” 9:50 · “You can't wreck people who've built their homes here, who've lived here all their lives, just to suit your own ends.” 9:53
- Seen
- sign [frame:1], desk [frame:2], hat [frame:2], wall hanging [frame:2]
- On screen
- ROBERT WEYLAN SILVER CREEK ENTERPRISES
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict over land use, corporate vs. community interests, moral accountability; style notes: medium two-shots, studio lighting, static framing, period Western office decor
Two men are in an office; one stands holding a hat while the other sits at a desk. A sign identifies 'Robert Weylan Silver Creek Enterprises'. The transcript includes a rebuke about wrecking people's homes for profit.
“Well, maybe it's like you say, Mr. Whalen.” 9:44 · “There may still be ore in this section.” 9:47 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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