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Beat 73

43:29–43:31 Registered 1936

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

Frame at 43:3043:30

Play from 43:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 143–143. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

People
  • man wearing a dark fedora, visible from nose up, serious expression visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora is shown in close-up, with a gun barrel pointed at him in the foreground. [frame:1]
Seen
gun barrel, fedora
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: danger, confrontation; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast lighting, dramatic focus on threat

A man in a fedora is shown in close-up, looking off-camera with a serious expression. A gun barrel is visible in the foreground, pointing toward him.

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 43:30 (passage 43:29–43:31); US record: No renewal found

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