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Secret Agent · Beat 146 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:14:21–1:14:51 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; 3 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 1:14:361:14:36

Play from 1:14:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 89 · shots 316–316. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, wearing a suit and hat, light-colored hair visible under hat visible
  • man, wearing a straw hat with dark band, patterned jacket visible
  • man, partially visible on right, dark clothing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman speaks to two men in a vehicle interior. [frame:1]
Also said
“Now we do our last job, then we get to the point in view. You must be fooling. That's what it is. It's fooling. It's Mr. Jones.” 74:40 · “Wait until I come back. The red coat is in the back of your head.” 74:50
Seen
straw hat with dark band [frame:1], woman's suit and hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conspiratorial; themes: suspicion, deception, espionage; style notes: close framing, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, black-and-white film

A woman in a suit and hat speaks with two men in a dimly lit interior; one man wears a straw hat. The transcript includes dialogue about someone being 'too friendly' and mentions 'Mr. Jones' and a 'red coat.'

“I've seen it. He's just getting on. But it's ridiculous. It's impossible. He's been so kind and friendly. Yes, friendly. Much too friendly.” 74:29 · “My instincts mean treating them all the time.” 74:38 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 1:14:36 (passage 1:14:21–1:14:51); US record: No renewal found

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