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Secret Agent · Beat 61 · permalink

Mountain

40:09–40:24 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 40:1140:11Frame at 40:1840:18

Play from 40:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 112–113. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing a dark top hat and dark coat, side profile visible
  • man wearing a light-colored fedora, patterned scarf, and dark coat, looking upward visible
Also said
“We'll have big fun.” 40:18 · “When this thing is over...” 40:20
Seen
top hat, fedora, patterned scarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted anticipation; themes: post-adventure relaxation, companionable dialogue; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up framing, natural outdoor lighting

Two men in hats are shown in profile and medium shot, speaking about returning for dinner and having fun after an event. The setting appears to be outdoors with a rocky or mountainous background.

“Oh, we ought to be back in comfortable time for dinner.” 40:13 · “What appetites we'll have generally?” 40:15 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 40:11 (passage 40:09–40:24); US record: No renewal found

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