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1:07:04–1:07:30 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 1:07:081:07:08Frame at 1:07:211:07:21

Play from 1:07:04 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 73 · shots 273–274. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • dark coat, hat, medium build visible
  • dark coat, medium build visible
  • white coat, dark trousers, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • Two people in dark coats stand near a cart in a corridor. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white coat walks down a flight of stairs. [frame:2]
Seen
metal cart with stacked items, staircase with handrail, large windows along corridor
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, procedural; themes: institutional setting, movement through space; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, symmetrical framing of corridor and stairs

Two people in dark coats stand near a cart in a corridor while a man in a white coat walks down stairs nearby. The setting appears to be an institutional interior with large windows and stairwells.

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 1:07:08 (passage 1:07:04–1:07:30); US record: No renewal found

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