Secret Agent · Beat 64 · permalink

Private office

40:55–41:01 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

40:5640:59

Play from 40:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

A dog barks at a closed door while a man in a hat and coat is seen in profile outdoors. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“What's the...” 40:57 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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<figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/Hitchcock_Secret_Agent/b64"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/Hitchcock_Secret_Agent/0117.webp" alt="Frame from Secret Agent (1936) at 40:56 (passage 40:55–41:01); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Secret Agent (1936), 40:55–41:01. Internet Archive copy Hitchcock_Secret_Agent; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>

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Public Reel, "Secret Agent (1936), 40:55–41:01", https://publicreel.org/moment/Hitchcock_Secret_Agent/b64, from Internet Archive item Hitchcock_Secret_Agent, retrieved 6 September 2026.