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Secret Agent · Beat 144 · permalink

Train

1:12:18–1:13:01 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:391:12:39

Play from 1:12:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 311–311. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
train (train, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in white hat and checkered coat, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and top hat, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in uniform, mid-adult, average build visible
  • woman with light hair, mid-adult, average build visible
  • man in dark hat, mid-adult, average build visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white hat is surrounded by others on a train platform. [frame:1]
Also said
“Money, boxes? One, two.” 72:38 · “Hello, station master? Listen, I'm going to get some cigarettes. You'd better go into the compartment. Have I time to get a magazine? Yes.” 72:59
Seen
white hat [frame:1], checkered coat [frame:1], top hat [frame:1], uniform [frame:1], train platform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: corruption, bribery, travel, authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, crowded framing, studio lighting

A man in a white hat and checkered coat is surrounded by others at a train station platform; he attempts to bribe officials with money while speaking to a station master. The scene includes dialogue about money, magazines, and compartment access, with no visible names or clear time of day.

“The idea, maybe if I give money to this son of a ranking file, you know about this?” 72:26 · “I hate these people. They only do everything only for money. - Well, go on, try and see what happens. - Hello. Hello.” 72:32 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 1:12:39 (passage 1:12:18–1:13:01); US record: No renewal found

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