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Indiscreet · Beat 106 · permalink

Living room

39:17–39:36 Registered 1931

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:2239:22Frame at 39:3239:32

Play from 39:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 39 · shots 190–191. 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, frame:2
People
  • woman with dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar, seated on a sofa visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing a patterned dress and a dark hat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits on a sofa, resting her arm on the back. [frame:1]
  • A second woman stands near the sofa, holding an object. [frame:2]
Also said
“Joan has no business.” 39:30 · “Even I wouldn't be safe with him.” 39:35
Seen
sofa [frame:1, frame:2], armchair [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], framed picture [frame:2], flower arrangement [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: social scandal, personal risk, female agency; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, studio set with minimal props

Two women are in a room; one sits on a sofa while the other stands nearby. The transcript suggests they are discussing whether to enter a place, mentioning a person named Joan and a scandal involving Jim Woodard.

“We shouldn't go in. Joan shouldn't go either. It's bound to be an awkward situation for all of us.” 39:17 · “Well, on second thought, perhaps you're right. Might cause a lot of trouble. We had a big scandal.” 39:22 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 Indiscreet (1931) at 39:22 (passage 39:17–39:36); US record: No renewal found

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