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Secret Agent · Beat 123 · permalink

Factory

1:06:42–1:07:04 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:441:06:44Frame at 1:06:511:06:51Frame at 1:06:561:06:56Frame at 1:07:021:07:02

Play from 1:06:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 266–272. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
factory (factory, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man, young adult, wearing a white shirt and tie, visible in a doorway visible
  • crowd of women, wearing headscarves, some in dark dresses visible
  • single figure, distant, wearing light-colored clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A crowd of women moves through a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white shirt reacts with an open mouth. [frame:2]
  • A wide shot shows a large, empty factory hall with rows of machinery. [frame:3]
  • A single figure walks down the center aisle of the factory hall. [frame:4]
Seen
headscarves [frame:1], machinery rows [frame:3], high ceiling with trusses [frame:3], large windows [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, abrupt; themes: industrial setting, sudden reaction, isolation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, wide-angle shots emphasizing scale, abrupt cuts between close-up and long shot

A man in a white shirt reacts with surprise as a crowd of women in headscarves moves through a doorway. The scene cuts to a large, empty industrial hall with rows of machinery and a single figure walking down the center aisle.

“Oh, my God.” 66:44 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 1:06:44 (passage 1:06:42–1:07:04); US record: No renewal found

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