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Secret Agent · Beat 51 · permalink

Restaurant

37:35–37:40 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 37:3737:37

Play from 37:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 94–94. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark suit, back to camera visible
  • lighter suit, seated at table, facing camera visible
  • dark suit, standing behind table visible
  • lighter suit, seated at table, side profile visible
Seen
{'item': 'chandelier', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'dining table', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'ornate wall paneling', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: social gathering, formal dining, mystery; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium shot framing, static camera, period decor

A dimly lit interior scene shows several figures seated at a table, with others standing or moving in the background. The setting appears formal, with ornate wall details and chandeliers visible.

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 37:37 (passage 37:35–37:40); US record: No renewal found

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