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Secret Agent · Beat 6 · permalink

Living room

10:00–10:27 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; 3 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 10:0410:04Frame at 10:0810:08Frame at 10:1810:18

Play from 10:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 6–8. 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:3
People
  • man wearing a dark fedora and coat, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in dark suit holding a small dog, clean-shaven, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • woman wearing a dark cloche hat and light blouse, visible in profile visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a small dog and speaks about it being 'loose'. [frame:3]
Also said
“Poor old boy. Loose. What is loose? What is geschehen? Oh, garnished. Karnished. Someone just trotted his foot, my dear. That's all. Nothing.” 10:15 · “England, didn't you?” 10:25
Seen
small dog, fedora hat, cloche hat, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational with undertones of apology and reunion; themes: apology, reunion, misunderstanding, pet as prop; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, minimal set design

A man in a hat speaks while another man holds a small dog; dialogue suggests an apology and a casual reunion. The setting appears to be an interior space with minimal furnishings.

“- It's all right. - I'm so sorry. I'm afraid it was entirely my fault.” 10:07 · “I know it's quite all right. No harm done. Sure, I haven't had him. Not a bit.” 10:10 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 10:04 (passage 10:00–10:27); US record: No renewal found

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