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Secret Agent · Beat 39 · permalink

Theatre

25:25–29:37 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:3127:31

Play from 25:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 69–69. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, dark suit, bow tie, white flower on lapel, holding cigarette visible
  • woman, light dress, short hair, visible in profile and front visible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman are conversing in a theatre. [frame:1]
Also said
“I think I do.” 26:23 · “Madam is going with another gentleman to the casino.” 27:07
Seen
handwritten note [frame:1], pen [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and flirtatious; themes: deception, romantic tension, espionage; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

Two people converse in a theatre setting, discussing a woman named Mrs. Ashland and plans to go to a casino. A handwritten note is visible, mentioning a man leaving and needing to be found.

“What is this strange fire you have over Coach Fonson?” 25:49 · “Speaking of love, do you think that bow-legged husband of yours would mind if I kissed you?” 26:09 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 27:31 (passage 25:25–29:37); US record: No renewal found

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