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Secret Agent · Beat 132 · permalink

Reception

1:08:33–1:08:35 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:08:341:08:34

Play from 1:08:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 283–283. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
reception (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform with cap, standing at desk visible
  • man in suit, back to camera, standing at desk visible
  • man in dark coat, side profile, standing near desk visible
  • man in dark coat, facing desk, partially visible visible
Seen
reception desk [frame:1], sign reading 'RECEPTION' [frame:1], wall map or mural [frame:1]
On screen
RECEPTION
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, procedural; themes: bureaucracy, waiting, uniformed authority; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s film noir

A man in a uniform stands at a reception desk while others wait nearby. The setting is an indoor reception area with a sign above the desk.

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 1:08:34 (passage 1:08:33–1:08:35); US record: No renewal found

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