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1:05:43–1:06:14 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:461:05:46Frame at 1:05:511:05:51Frame at 1:06:011:06:01Frame at 1:06:121:06:12

Play from 1:05:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 252–255. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark fedora, dark coat, and patterned tie visible
  • man wearing a white hat and checkered jacket, with a mustache visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand side by side in an interior space. [frame:1]
  • A fire alarm box labeled 'ALARM' and 'FEUER MELDER' is mounted on a wall. [frame:2]
  • The man in the white hat looks upward while another man leans toward him. [frame:3]
  • Close-up of the man in the white hat, eyes closed, head tilted back. [frame:4]
Seen
fire alarm box, fedora, white hat, checkered jacket
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, urban setting, male camaraderie; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, studio lighting

Two men are shown in an interior setting; one wears a fedora and coat, the other a white hat and checkered jacket. A fire alarm box labeled 'ALARM' and 'FEUER MELDER' is visible on a wall. One man speaks the line 'Come on.'

“Come on.” 65:44 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 1:05:46 (passage 1:05:43–1:06:14); US record: No renewal found

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