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Secret Agent · Beat 45 · permalink

Living room

33:40–34:19 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 33:4733:47Frame at 34:0134:01Frame at 34:1434:14

Play from 33:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 79–81. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • older woman with light hair, wearing a dark dress with patterned collar visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back, adjusting tie visible
  • man in dark suit, facing p2, holding a small object visible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p3 visible
  • man in dark suit, seated in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man adjusts his tie while others stand around him. [frame:2]
  • An older woman speaks directly to the camera. [frame:3]
Also said
“I have never been to England.” 34:10 · “been away from Germany.” 34:14
Seen
chandelier, formal suits, tie, patterned dress collar
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, slightly tense; themes: social introduction, travel and departure, national identity; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, formal attire, indoor lighting with soft shadows

A group of people in formal attire interact in an interior space; one woman speaks about someone leaving soon and another mentions never having been to England or Germany. The scene includes a man adjusting his tie and others standing nearby.

“Oh, good.” 33:47 · “I think you've already met Mr. Marvin.” 33:57 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 33:47 (passage 33:40–34:19); US record: No renewal found

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