Public Reel

Secret Agent · Beat 94 · permalink

Living room

57:49–58:27 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5157:51Frame at 58:0058:00Frame at 58:1758:17Frame at 58:2558:25

Play from 57:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 57 · shots 186–193. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman with curly hair, wearing striped pajamas, visible in close-up visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, seated at table, visible in medium shot visible
  • man in light suit and tie, holding a small object, visible in close-up visible
  • man in suit, seated at table, visible in medium shot visible
Seen happening
  • Three men are seated around a table with tea service. [frame:2]
  • A man in a suit holds up a small object while speaking. [frame:3]
  • A man in a suit gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“But he's in big money. He makes about four times as big money as any other Clark.” 58:19 · “I can't believe it.” 58:26
Seen
tea set, small object held by man, fireplace
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social class, deception, romantic entanglement; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static camera

A woman speaks about her fiancé who works in a chocolate factory and earns more than other Clarks. Three men are present in a room with a table set for tea, one of whom gestures while speaking.

“She tells me about her fiancé.” 58:10 · “Oh, no, no, no, no. He works in chocolate factory on the top floor.” 58:14 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Secret Agent (1936) at 57:51 (passage 57:49–58:27); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Hitchcock_Secret_Agent/b94.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite