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Secret Agent · Beat 30 · permalink

Control room

22:39–22:40 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 22:3922:39

Play from 22:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 54–54. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
control_room (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing, back to camera visible
  • man in dark suit, standing, leaning forward visible
  • man seated, dark clothing, head down, near control panel visible
Seen
control panel with illuminated buttons [frame:1], suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: surveillance, espionage, technology; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, high contrast black and white

Two men in suits stand near a seated man at a control panel in a dimly lit interior. The setting appears to be a technical or command room with illuminated panels.

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 22:39 (passage 22:39–22:40); US record: No renewal found

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