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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 29:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 62 · shots 208–209. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man wearing a wide-brimmed hat and dark coat, middle-aged, stern expression, visible in close-up visible
- figure in dark coat and hat, standing behind coffin visible
- figure in dark coat and hat, standing behind coffin visible
- figure in lighter coat, standing near coffin visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a wide-brimmed hat stares intently at the camera. [frame:1]
- A coffin is shown in a dimly lit room with several figures standing around it. [frame:2]
- Seen
- wide-brimmed hat, coffin, dark coats
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber and ominous; themes: death, ritual, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight close-up followed by a wide, shadowy composition, typical of early horror cinema
A man in a wide-brimmed hat is shown in close-up, followed by a wider shot of a coffin in a dimly lit space with several figures standing around it. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.
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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