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Secret Agent · Beat 157 · permalink

Train

1:20:49–1:21:13 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 1:21:011:21:01

Play from 1:20:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 96 · shots 330–330. 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 coat and hat, holding papers, seen from behind visible
  • man in dark coat, facing p1, partially visible visible
  • man in dark coat, standing behind p1, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds papers while being confronted in a train corridor. [frame:1]
Also said
“I tell you, I've got nothing to do with it. You know I'm here.” 81:00
Seen
papers [frame:1], train corridor with handrails and compartment doors [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: misunderstanding, confinement, authority vs. individual; style notes: tight framing in a confined train corridor, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a train corridor is confronted by others while holding papers; dialogue suggests a mix-up about his removal from the train. The scene is set inside a train car with visible handrails and compartment doors.

“Congratulations on the punctuality of your airport.” 81:00 · “I'm afraid they've made a mistake. They've taken you off the train before they started this.” 81:00 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 1:21:01 (passage 1:20:49–1:21:13); US record: No renewal found

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