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Secret Agent · Beat 153 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:18:47–1:19:41 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:19:141:19:14

Play from 1:18:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 326–326. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark jacket, seated visible, audible
  • woman, light-colored hat and coat, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman sit facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“Enemy fairs, Harry.” 79:13 · “On the train somewhere? How on earth did they get on this train?” 79:23
Seen
hat [frame:1], jacket [frame:1], seats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: espionage, confinement, suspicion; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, low-key lighting, static framing

A man and a woman sit facing each other in a dimly lit interior, speaking about being in enemy territory and others on a train. The dialogue suggests tension over unseen individuals who may be dead men.

“Do you realize where you are?” 79:09 · “You're in my country.” 79:12 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 1:19:14 (passage 1:18:47–1:19:41); US record: No renewal found

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