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Secret Agent · Beat 114 · permalink

Restaurant

1:03:34–1:04:00 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:361:03:36Frame at 1:03:491:03:49

Play from 1:03:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 67 · shots 245–246. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in uniform with epaulets and cap, mustache, middle-aged visible
  • man in uniform with epaulets, standing behind p1 visible
  • woman with glasses, light hair, wearing dark dress with white collar visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing suit and tie, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform is on the telephone. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man are seated at a table, engaged in conversation. [frame:2]
Also said
“Are you two Englishmen here?” 63:46 · “Yeah, yeah, they're since flying with the fabrique.” 63:54
Seen
telephone, uniforms with epaulets and cap, table, glasses, dark dress with white collar, suit and tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: espionage, national identity, miscommunication; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, period costumes

Two men in uniform are shown in an interior setting; one is on the phone. A woman and a man are seated at a table in what appears to be a restaurant or cafe. The transcript includes dialogue about Englishmen and a chocolate factory.

“Ah, the director of the chocolate factory.” 63:36 · “Two English, no one.” 63:40 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 1:03:36 (passage 1:03:34–1:04:00); US record: No renewal found

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