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23:55–23:57 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 23:5623:56

Play from 23:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 61–61. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • gloved hand, wearing a dark glove, gripping an object; no other features visible visible
Seen happening
  • A gloved hand grips a dark object in a smoky environment. [frame:1]
Seen
gloved hand, dark object, smoke or mist
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, mysterious; themes: suspense, clandestine action; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, tight close-up, dramatic lighting emphasizing the hand and object against a diffuse background

A close-up shows a gloved hand gripping a dark object, possibly a weapon or tool, against a smoky or misty background. No people are identifiable, no dialogue is present, and the setting is indistinct.

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 23:56 (passage 23:55–23:57); US record: No renewal found

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