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Secret Agent · Beat 152 · permalink

Train

1:17:31–1:18:47 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:18:041:18:04Frame at 1:18:421:18:42

Play from 1:17:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 93 · shots 324–325. 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, frame:2, t:78:29
People
  • woman, blonde, wearing a hat and suit, mid-20s to 30s, medium build visible
  • unseen, likely male based on dialogue tone audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A woman looks concerned in a close-up shot. [frame:1]
  • The same woman looks down, appearing resigned or cautious. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now what are you doing on this train? I told you.” 78:29 · “You're in the spy racket too, aren't you? I don't know what you're talking about. All right.” 78:34
Seen
hat, suit, hat, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspicious; themes: espionage, distrust, gender roles in thriller, confinement in transit; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A woman in a hat and suit is shown in two close-up frames inside a vehicle; dialogue suggests a tense exchange about espionage and distrust on a train. No names are spoken that can be linked to the visible person, and the setting is identified as a train interior based on context and framing.

“Are you alone?” 77:31 · “You see, I don't trust him.” 78:24 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 1:18:04 (passage 1:17:31–1:18:47); US record: No renewal found

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