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Secret Agent · Beat 21 · permalink

Private office

18:54–19:02 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 18:5818:58

Play from 18:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 43–43. 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 dark suit and tie, short hair, serious expression visible, audible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing dark top with light trim, slight smile in one frame visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman face each other in a dimly lit interior. [frame:1]
Also said
“Don't forget we've got a job to do, and it's part of that job to keep it secret, whatever happens.” 18:59
Seen
dark suit and tie [frame:1], dark top with light trim [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and tense; themes: marriage, secrecy, duty; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, studio set

A man and a woman face each other in a dimly lit interior. The transcript indicates they are discussing marriage and a secret job.

“Married life has begun.” 18:55 · “All right, chat about that as much as you like.” 18:56 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 18:58 (passage 18:54–19:02); US record: No renewal found

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