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Secret Agent · Beat 36 · permalink

Village

23:57–24:16 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote 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 24:0324:03Frame at 24:1124:11Frame at 24:1324:13Frame at 24:1524:15

Play from 23:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 62–65. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
village (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • man wearing a hat and coat, mostly in shadow visible
  • woman with light-colored hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar visible
Seen
window with panes and curtains [frame:2], church tower with clock face [frame:4], mountains in background [frame:4], doorway with ivy [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful and parting; themes: departure, secrecy, rural setting; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups, static framing, establishing shot of landscape

A man in a hat and coat is seen in shadowy close-up, followed by a woman looking out a window, then standing in a doorway; the final shot shows a church tower with a clock against a mountainous backdrop. The transcript contains a single line: 'I'll see you next time.'

“I'll see you next time.” 23:57 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 24:03 (passage 23:57–24:16); US record: No renewal found

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