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Secret Agent · Beat 143 · permalink

Street

1:12:14–1:12:18 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:12:161:12:16

Play from 1:12:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 310–310. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure, likely male, wearing a hat and coat visible
  • silhouetted figure, possibly female, standing close to p1 visible
  • silhouetted figures in background, walking away visible
Seen
tree, streetlamp, buildings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nocturnal, mysterious; themes: urban night, secrecy, movement; style notes: high-contrast lighting, silhouettes, deep focus, street-level framing

A dimly lit street scene at night shows silhouetted figures walking along a sidewalk lined with buildings and trees. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 1:12:16 (passage 1:12:14–1:12:18); US record: No renewal found

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