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Secret Agent · Beat 99 · permalink

Living room

1:00:24–1:00:42 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:261:00:26Frame at 1:00:351:00:35

Play from 1:00:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 208–209. 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:1
People
  • Joseph (named at t:60:26): man in suit and tie, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman with short blonde hair, wearing dark dress with ruffles visible
Seen happening
  • man holds telephone receiver to ear [frame:1]
  • woman stands holding small object in hands [frame:2]
Seen
telephone receiver, lamp with fringed shade, small object held by woman
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: communication under pressure, gendered roles in domestic space; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a suit is on the phone while a woman in a dark dress stands nearby holding an object. The transcript includes a line addressing someone named Joseph and his affirmative reply.

“You do understand, then, Joseph?” 60:26 · “Yeah.” 60:28 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 1:00:26 (passage 1:00:24–1:00:42); US record: No renewal found

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