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Secret Agent · Beat 90 · permalink

Private office

54:32–54:48 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 54:4054:40

Play from 54:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 181–181. 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
  • man in suspenders, light shirt, dark tie, smiling while on phone visible, audible
Also said
“Now get me.” 54:44 · “This, madam, is the end.” 54:47
Seen
lamp [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], ornate chair or furniture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: deception, confrontation, telephone communication; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, soft lighting from lamp, static framing

A man in suspenders is on the phone in a dimly lit room with a lamp and ornate furniture. He speaks with someone off-screen, questioning whom he has been kissing and declaring it the end.

“Hello.” 54:33 · “Let me get this straight. Whom have I been kissing? You or the old man?” 54:36 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 54:40 (passage 54:32–54:48); US record: No renewal found

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