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Secret Agent · Beat 138 · permalink

Private office

1:09:17–1:09:50 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 1:09:181:09:18Frame at 1:09:351:09:35

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 292–293. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark coat and collared shirt visible, audible
  • woman, blonde hair, wearing a light-colored coat and a hat visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand close, facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks up at the man, appearing distressed. [frame:2]
Also said
“I need him too.” 69:35 · “Well, the car is waiting.” 69:49
Seen
coat [frame:1], hat [frame:2], collared shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: emotional conflict, departure, unspoken tension; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s studio production

A man and a woman are in a close conversation indoors; the woman appears distressed and mentions crying, while the man questions her. A car is mentioned as waiting, suggesting imminent departure.

“Where are you going?” 69:18 · “I look as though I've been crying.” 69:28 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 1:09:18 (passage 1:09:17–1:09:50); US record: No renewal found

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