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Secret Agent · Beat 55 · permalink

Living room

38:13–38:15 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 38:1438:14

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Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 98–98. 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:1
People
  • older woman, wearing formal dark jacket and patterned blouse with bow tie, seated visible
Seen
formal jacket [frame:1], patterned blouse with bow tie [frame:1], object in hands [frame:1], chair [frame:1], window [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn; themes: formality, contemplation; style notes: medium close-up, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s cinema

A woman in formal attire sits indoors, looking down at an object in her hands. The setting appears to be a room with a window and furniture visible in the background.

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 38:14 (passage 38:13–38:15); US record: No renewal found

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