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Secret Agent · Beat 112 · permalink

Interior

1:02:38–1:03:13 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:391:02:39Frame at 1:02:491:02:49Frame at 1:02:591:02:59Frame at 1:03:101:03:10

Play from 1:02:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 228–237. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
interior (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a light-colored hat with a dark band and a plaid shirt, seen from behind visible
  • hand wearing a light-colored sleeve, placing an object visible
Seen happening
  • A person in a hat and plaid shirt stands near a spiral staircase. [frame:1]
  • A hand places a small, light-colored object onto a dark surface. [frame:3]
  • A close-up shows handwritten text on lined paper. [frame:4]
Seen
spiral staircase [frame:1], hat with dark band [frame:2], plaid shirt [frame:2], small light-colored object [frame:3], lined paper with handwriting [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: espionage, secrecy, departure; style notes: static shots, high contrast lighting, close-ups on hands and text

A person in a hat and plaid shirt is seen from behind near a spiral staircase, then a hand places a small object on a surface, followed by a close-up of handwritten text on lined paper. The transcript contains a single line spoken at 62:40: 'I'm going to go.'

“I'm going to go.” 62:40 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 1:02:39 (passage 1:02:38–1:03:13); US record: No renewal found

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