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Secret Agent · Beat 169 · permalink

Private office

1:25:20–1:25:32 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 1:25:261:25:26

Play from 1:25:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 354–354. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing a dark suit visible
  • man in military uniform with peaked cap visible
  • man in military uniform with peaked cap, standing behind p2 visible
  • man in military uniform with peaked cap, standing to the right visible
Seen happening
  • Two men shake hands. [frame:1]
Seen
desk with papers [frame:1], military uniforms [frame:1], peaked caps [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal; themes: military protocol, formal meeting; style notes: medium shot, static camera, studio lighting, black and white

Two men in military uniforms shake hands in a room with other uniformed men present. A desk with papers is visible in the foreground.

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 1:25:26 (passage 1:25:20–1:25:32); US record: No renewal found

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