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Secret Agent · Beat 1 · permalink

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0:00–2:26 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: period without evidence. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:131:13

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Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other)
Mentioned
  • A soldier's death is discussed as sudden and unexpected. [t:1:59]
Also said
“By the way, Wednesday funeral, Morrison.” 2:19 · “Requires in the country. Thank you” 2:21
Seen
title card
On screen
MAY 10TH 1916 84 Curzon St. W.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: somber; themes: death, memory, war, funeral; style notes: static title card with serif typography; high contrast black-and-white; no visible characters or movement

The beat opens with a title card showing 'MAY 10TH 1916' and '84 Curzon St. W.', followed by dialogue about a soldier's sudden death and a funeral. No characters are visible in the single frame provided.

“He said an orphan soldier dies in his bed these days. No, sir.” 1:59 · “No such luck, sir.” 2:02 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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Frame from Secret Agent (1936) at 1:13 (passage 0:00–2:26); US record: No renewal found

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