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Secret Agent · Beat 69 · permalink

Mountain

41:50–42:06 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:5141:51Frame at 41:5841:58Frame at 42:0542:05

Play from 41:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 128–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
mountain (mountain, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man wearing a hat, shorts, and carrying a cane, seen from behind and then frontally visible
  • man wearing a bowler hat and suit, facing right visible, audible
  • man wearing a straw hat and patterned jacket, facing left visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man walks with a cane across a rocky mountain path. [frame:1]
  • Two men face each other and speak. [frame:2]
  • The man with the cane stands still on the mountain path. [frame:3]
Also said
“forget instructions of Mr. R. You prepared me finish.” 41:56 · “What about my money for this job?” 42:01
Seen
cane [frame:1, frame:3], bowler hat [frame:2], straw hat [frame:2], suit [frame:2], patterned jacket [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: negotiation, mountain journey, conflict over payment; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, natural mountain lighting, period costumes

A man in a hat and shorts walks with a cane across a rocky, snow-covered mountain landscape. Two men, one in a bowler hat and another in a straw hat, speak to each other in a close-up, discussing money and instructions.

“Come on.” 41:50 · “This milk going through with it, too, yeah?” 41:51 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 41:51 (passage 41:50–42:06); US record: No renewal found

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