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Secret Agent · Beat 54 · permalink

Vehicle interior

37:49–38:13 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:0138:01

Play from 37:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 97–97. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and holding a camera, visible in frame visible
  • man seated, smiling, visible in frame visible
  • child in light-colored dress, visible in frame visible
  • person speaking to child, audible only audible
Seen happening
  • A group of people is seated in a vehicle interior; one holds a camera. [frame:1]
Also said
“Come here.” 38:02 · “Don't you take any notice of that funny dog.” 38:08
Seen
camera [frame:1], hat [frame:1], bench or seat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent, suggested by exclamations and repeated calls to the child; themes: family or group dynamics, travel or transit, childcare in public; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, studio lighting

A group of people is seated in what appears to be a vehicle interior; one person speaks to a child while another holds a camera. No names are spoken or visible.

“I'm going to go.” 37:49 · “Oh, shit.” 37:58 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 38:01 (passage 37:49–38:13); US record: No renewal found

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