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Indiscreet · Beat 107 · permalink

Living room

39:36–40:33 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:4039:40Frame at 39:4639:46Frame at 40:2140:21Frame at 40:3240:32

Play from 39:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 192–196. 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 short dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a large bow at the neck, seated in frame 1, standing in frame 4 visible
  • woman with short dark hair, wearing a patterned dress and a hat, standing in frame 2, facing p1 in frame 3 and 4 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits on a couch, resting her head on her hand, appearing distressed. [frame:1]
  • Two women stand in a living room; one adjusts her hat while the other holds a piece of paper. [frame:2]
  • The two women face each other closely, engaged in conversation. [frame:3]
  • The woman in the hat speaks earnestly to the other woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Please listen to me now.” 40:16 · “I know something about life. You're only on the brink of it.” 40:21
Seen
couch [frame:1], lamp [frame:2], hat [frame:2], piece of paper [frame:2], flower brooch [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and advisory; themes: intergenerational advice, romantic conflict, female agency; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, intimate framing

Two women are in a room, one seated and distressed, the other standing and speaking earnestly. The dialogue suggests a disagreement about a romantic relationship and concerns over a man named Jim Woodward.

“No, and you shouldn't go.” 39:48 · “Kids, I like older men.” 40:00 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 39:40 (passage 39:36–40:33); US record: No renewal found

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