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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 30:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 222–222. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man seated at desk, wearing light-colored shirt and trousers, appears middle-aged, thin build visible
- man standing, balding, wearing dark patterned jacket, appears older, heavier build visible
- Seen happening
- One man sits at a desk while another stands near a cabinet. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “The doctor turned a certificate. I saw them bury her. Now, baby.” 31:35 · “Surely you don't think she's alive in the hands of Nathan.” 33:01
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], cabinet with glass doors [frame:1], chair [frame:1], bookshelf [frame:1], small framed picture on wall [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: supernatural, suspicion, colonialism, death and resurrection; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, shadowy background, period costume and set design
Two men are in a dimly lit room; one sits at a desk while the other stands near a cabinet. The transcript includes dialogue about a woman's death, superstitions, and a possible theft of her body, with one man insisting she is not dead.
“Either the body was stolen by members of a death card.” 31:15 · “He's not dead.” 31:24 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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