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Secret Agent · Beat 71 · permalink

Living room

42:44–43:12 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:5242:52Frame at 43:0143:01Frame at 43:0743:07

Play from 42:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 135–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in dark dress with white collar, standing near door visible
  • woman with blonde hair, light-colored dress, seated visible
  • man in dark suit, seated to right of p2 visible
  • man in dark suit, leaning toward p2, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a dark dress stands near a door. [frame:1]
  • A woman with blonde hair looks down, seated. [frame:2]
  • Two men and a woman sit together; one man leans toward the woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“Now you lie there like a good little dog.” 43:05 · “We go back to our lesson.” 43:10
Seen
door, small table, curtains, dark suit, light dress
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and controlled; themes: dominance, instruction, domestic setting; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing

A woman in a dark dress stands near a door while another woman in light clothing sits with two men; dialogue references a dog named Mickey and a lesson. The setting appears to be an interior room with furniture and curtains.

“No, he's being a very bad dog.” 42:48 · “When your master comes home, I tell him how you behave.” 42:59 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 42:52 (passage 42:44–43:12); US record: No renewal found

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