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2:26–2:39 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; 3 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 2:322:32

Play from 2:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, white shirt, tie, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, dark coat, dark hat with bow, older, medium build visible
  • man, dark coat, hat, younger, visible over p2's shoulder visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a hat and coat. [frame:1]
Seen
dark coat [frame:1], hat with bow [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: wartime employment, gender roles, farewell; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black and white, static camera

A man in a suit speaks to a woman in a hat and coat; another man is visible behind them. The transcript includes a farewell and a comment about wartime work.

“So long, girls.” 2:33 · “You'll be in work getting less than those, sir. Red Cross, munitions, what not.” 2:34 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 2:32 (passage 2:26–2:39); US record: No renewal found

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