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Secret Agent · Beat 160 · permalink

Private office

1:22:16–1:22:36 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:22:201:22:20Frame at 1:22:271:22:27Frame at 1:22:331:22:33

Play from 1:22:16 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 98 · shots 334–336. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, standing, dark hair visible
  • woman in hat and suit, seated visible
  • man in suit, smiling, standing visible
  • man in dark suit, seated, speaking visible
  • woman in hat and suit, standing visible
  • man in suit, standing, speaking visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A group of people stand together in a room with a globe visible. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit is seated and speaking. [frame:2]
  • A woman and a man stand side by side, looking forward. [frame:3]
Seen
globe, hat, suit, tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: social interaction, formal attire, indoor gathering; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing

A group of people in formal attire are gathered indoors; one man speaks while others listen. A separate shot shows a man seated and speaking, followed by a two-shot of a woman and a man in conversation.

“- You may certainly. - Sure. I congratulate you all.” 82:28 · “Especially, madame. Excuse me.” 82:33 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 1:22:20 (passage 1:22:16–1:22:36); US record: No renewal found

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