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Secret Agent · Beat 111 · permalink

Kitchen

1:02:18–1:02:38 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:02:221:02:22Frame at 1:02:281:02:28Frame at 1:02:321:02:32Frame at 1:02:361:02:36

Play from 1:02:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 224–227. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
kitchen (kitchen, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a checkered overcoat, white hat, and dark tie visible
  • man wearing a white shirt, dark tie, and a light apron visible
  • man in white shirt and apron, partially visible in background visible
Seen
{'item': 'white hat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'checkered overcoat', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'apron', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'wall-mounted equipment (possibly electrical boxes or switches)', 'frame': 3}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, disguise, urban setting; style notes: medium shots with tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s cinema, abrupt cut to equipment suggesting a hidden detail or threat

A man in a checkered coat and white hat stands in a busy kitchen, interacting with a man in an apron; the scene cuts to a close-up of wall-mounted equipment and then to the man's alarmed expression. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 1:02:22 (passage 1:02:18–1:02:38); US record: No renewal found

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