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Secret Agent · Beat 88 · permalink

Private office

54:12–54:15 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:1454:14

Play from 54:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 176–176. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with blonde curled hair, wearing dark top, smiling visible
  • man in suit and tie, holding small object, smiling visible
Seen
small dark object held by man [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and intimate; themes: personal interaction, mystery object; style notes: close-up framing, soft studio lighting, black-and-white film texture

A man and a woman are shown in close-up, both smiling; the man holds a small object. The setting appears to be indoors with soft lighting.

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 54:14 (passage 54:12–54:15); US record: No renewal found

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