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Secret Agent · Beat 151 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:17:12–1:17:31 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:17:211:17:21

Play from 1:17:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 323–323. 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
  • man in civilian jacket, medium build, dark hair, standing visible
  • man in uniform with cap, possibly military or police, holding something small visible
  • partially visible person wearing light-colored hat or head covering visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a confined space, one in uniform. [frame:1]
Also said
“Because I'm going to come to San Antonio for it.” 77:28 · “Are you alone?” 77:31
Seen
uniform cap, civilian jacket, light-colored hat or head covering
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, suspicion, travel; style notes: tight framing, high contrast lighting, black and white film stock

Two men are seen in a dimly lit interior space; one is in civilian clothes and the other in a uniform with a cap. A transcript line asks if the person is alone, suggesting an interrogation or confrontation.

“Come on.” 77:14 · “Why are you on the sink?” 77:26 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 1:17:21 (passage 1:17:12–1:17:31); US record: No renewal found

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