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Secret Agent · Beat 27 · permalink

Private office

21:00–21:51 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:2521:25

Play from 21:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 50–50. 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 with mustache, wearing a suit, seated visible
  • man in dark suit and tie, standing, partially obscured visible
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 21:27 · “Put those back here, fool.” 21:42
Seen
window with panes [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority, tension; style notes: high-contrast lighting, tight framing on two men, black-and-white film stock

Two men are in a dimly lit interior; one speaks sharply while the other looks on. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond clothing and a window are visible.

“- United prayers. - Do not insult me, please. I'm not insulting you.” 21:02 · “Come on.” 21:06 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 21:25 (passage 21:00–21:51); US record: No renewal found

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