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Secret Agent · Beat 12 · permalink

Bedroom

12:37–13:37 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 13:0713:07

Play from 12:37 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 7 · shots 25–25. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark suit, seen from behind, average build visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a bedroom facing away from the camera. [frame:1]
Also said
“You don't want the hotel to do here, do you?” 13:03 · “Mine? You sleep there.” 13:04
Seen
bed [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: marriage, privacy, formal acknowledgment; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, classic studio composition with depth from curtains and furniture

A man in a suit stands in a bedroom with a bed visible behind curtains; dialogue suggests a marital relationship and a document being presented. The scene includes spoken lines about a bedroom and a husband, with one person asking to enter and mentioning work.

“I acknowledge you as my true and lawful husband.” 12:54 · “It's in my bedroom.” 13:00 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 13:07 (passage 12:37–13:37); US record: No renewal found

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