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Secret Agent · Beat 41 · permalink

Casino

30:53–30:55 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 5 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 30:5430:54

Play from 30:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 75–75. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
casino (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing, mid-adult visible
  • man in light suit, standing, mid-adult visible
  • woman seated, wearing light dress, mid-adult visible
  • man seated at table, dark suit, mid-adult visible
  • man standing behind table, uniformed, mid-adult visible
Seen
roulette table [frame:1], chips [frame:1], casino chairs [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: gambling, social gathering; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A group of people are gathered around a roulette table in what appears to be a casino. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 30:54 (passage 30:53–30:55); US record: No renewal found

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