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1:09:13–1:09:17 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 1:09:151:09:15

Play from 1:09:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 291–291. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, back to camera visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, side profile visible
  • man in dark overcoat, facing right visible
  • man in light-colored uniform with medals, facing left visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p4 visible
Seen
ornate wall panel [frame:1], dark overcoat [frame:1], light-colored uniform with medals [frame:1], hats (bowler and fedora) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, formal attire, military vs civilian; style notes: medium shot, black and white, studio lighting, static composition

A group of men in coats and hats stand in an interior space with ornate walls. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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 1:09:15 (passage 1:09:13–1:09:17); US record: No renewal found

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