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Secret Agent · Beat 154 · permalink

Train

1:19:41–1:19:59 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:19:501:19:50

Play from 1:19:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 94 · shots 327–327. 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 dark suit, white shirt, tie, pocket square, short dark hair visible
  • woman in light-colored suit, wide-brimmed hat, light hair, necklace visible
  • man in dark uniform with peaked cap, partially visible on left visible
Seen
suit [frame:1], hat [frame:1], uniform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, authority, crisis; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s setting

A man in a suit and a woman in a hat stand together while a uniformed officer is partially visible; dialogue suggests a search of a train is being discussed. The woman reacts with alarm to something said or seen.

“Why don't you have the train searched? Exactly what I'm going to do. When you do, perhaps you'll believe me.” 79:41 · “Oh, my God.” 79:48 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 1:19:50 (passage 1:19:41–1:19:59); US record: No renewal found

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