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Secret Agent · Beat 66 · permalink

Hotel lobby

41:23–41:45 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:2541:25Frame at 41:2941:29Frame at 41:3741:37Frame at 41:4341:43

Play from 41:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 41 · shots 122–125. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older woman, light hair, wearing ruffled blouse and dark bow tie visible
  • younger woman, blonde, wearing light dress with floral detail visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing suit and tie, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • A dark dog lies on the floor next to a paneled door. [frame:1]
  • Three people stand together; the man smiles while the two women look toward each other. [frame:2]
  • The two women face each other; the older woman speaks to the younger one. [frame:3]
  • The dog is again shown lying by the door, head raised slightly. [frame:4]
Also said
“He thinks of himself.” 41:33 · “Was kostet es für eine Nacht?” 41:41
Seen
dog, paneled door, patterned rug, ruffled blouse, floral dress, suit and tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and subdued; themes: loyalty, absence, social interaction; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests period setting

A dog lies by a door while three people converse nearby; one person speaks German, asking the price for a night. The dog is mentioned as being troubled when its master is away.

“Sister, come. Come here, Sister. Come.” 41:26 · “He is always troubled when his master is away.” 41:29 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 41:25 (passage 41:23–41:45); US record: No renewal found

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