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Secret Agent · Beat 105 · permalink

Prison cell block

1:01:47–1:01:50 Registered 1936

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; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:481:01:48

Play from 1:01:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 215–215. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
prison_cell_block (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in striped suit and fedora, back to camera visible
  • man in dark coat and bowler hat, profile view visible
  • man in light shirt, facing away, near barred window visible
  • man in cap, foreground, seated or crouched visible
Seen
barred window [frame:1], wooden table or bench [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], striped suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confined; themes: confinement, suspicion, group dynamics; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, deep focus showing multiple figures in a cramped space

A group of men in hats and coats stand in a dimly lit interior space with barred windows. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the 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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Frame from Secret Agent (1936) at 1:01:48 (passage 1:01:47–1:01:50); US record: No renewal found

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