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Secret Agent · Beat 49 · permalink

Bar

35:39–36:18 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:5935:59

Play from 35:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 29 · shots 91–91. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: t:35:40
People
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a collared shirt or jacket, visible in close-up visible, audible
Also said
“As a matter of fact, if I weren't going away the day after tomorrow, I'd have to keep taking you off myself.” 35:59 · “I suppose you couldn't make it tomorrow, would you?” 36:15
Seen
man's face and upper torso
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and regretful; themes: unfulfilled plans, regret, imminent departure; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock, focused on facial expression

A man speaks in a dimly lit interior, discussing a bottle, a location called the Langen Elk, and the need for a guide; he mentions leaving the day after tomorrow and expresses regret about not being able to assist further. No names are spoken, and no other people or objects are clearly visible in the single frame provided.

“Anyone got a bottle? No.” 35:40 · “Well, there's the, uh, the Langen Elk.” 35:42 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 35:59 (passage 35:39–36:18); US record: No renewal found

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