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Secret Agent · Beat 113 · permalink

Switchboard room

1:03:13–1:03:34 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 1:03:151:03:15Frame at 1:03:221:03:22Frame at 1:03:281:03:28Frame at 1:03:331:03:33

Play from 1:03:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 67 · shots 238–244. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
switchboard_room (other, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • hand turning a doorknob, visible in frame 3 visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a headset, visible in frame 4 visible, audible
  • woman with light hair, pointing at switchboard, visible in frame 4 visible
Seen happening
  • A hand turns a doorknob. [frame:3]
  • Two women are at a switchboard; one speaks into a headset. [frame:4]
Also said
“What's going on? - The Central! - The Central!” 63:29
Seen
doorknob [frame:1], switchboard [frame:4], headset [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: espionage, communication, urgency; style notes: tight close-ups on hands and faces, high-contrast lighting, static camera on switchboard

A hand turns a doorknob, then two women are seen at a switchboard; one is speaking into a headset. The transcript includes urgent calls for police and references to spies and 'The Central.'

“Police, please.” 63:15 · “What, you have two English Spione?” 63:26 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 1:03:15 (passage 1:03:13–1:03:34); US record: No renewal found

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