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Secret Agent · Beat 57 · permalink

Living room

38:18–38:34 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:2138:21Frame at 38:2738:27Frame at 38:3038:30Frame at 38:3338:33

Play from 38:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 100–103. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • Janir (named at t:38:22): older woman, light-colored hair styled up, wearing a dark jacket with a light patterned front and a bow tie, seated visible, audible
  • woman with light-colored hair, wearing a light-colored dress with ruffles, standing or moving visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a light dress stands near a seated woman. [frame:1]
  • The seated woman smiles while holding an object. [frame:2]
  • The standing woman looks down at something in her hands. [frame:3]
  • The seated woman looks off-camera with a serious expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“Is this your home?” 38:31 · “Mr. Ball's our home.” 38:33
Seen
armchair [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], side table or mantelpiece [frame:1], small object held by p1 [frame:2], small object held by p2 [frame:3], window with panes [frame:2, frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: domestic space, marital status, identity of home; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, studio lighting, period costume and set design

A woman in period attire speaks with another woman in a formal interior setting; dialogue references a husband and a home. The scene includes close-ups and medium shots of the two women, one seated and one standing, with period furnishings visible.

“I suppose your husband's a very good man, Janir.” 38:22 · “Yes.” 38:25 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 38:21 (passage 38:18–38:34); US record: No renewal found

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