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Indiscreet · Beat 110 · permalink

Living room

41:43–42:05 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:4741:47Frame at 41:5841:58

Play from 41:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 201–202. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar and bow, seated, head in hands visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned blouse, standing, placing hand on p1's shoulder visible
  • Joan (named at t:42:00): woman, dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar and bow, facing camera visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands behind a seated woman and places her hand on the seated woman's shoulder. [frame:1]
  • A woman looks directly at the camera with a serious expression. [frame:2]
Also said
“Jim isn't going to be on the level with her.” 41:56 · “Oh, Joan only knew him as I know him.” 42:00
Seen
curtains, window, chair, patterned blouse, dark dress with light collar and bow
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: female solidarity, warning against deception, personal crisis; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, close framing on faces to emphasize emotion

A woman comforts another woman seated in a chair; a third woman speaks directly to the camera. The transcript references a character named Jim Wood and expresses concern about his intentions.

“I just couldn't let you go through with it.” 41:46 · “Just give that Jim Wood a time.” 41:50 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 41:47 (passage 41:43–42:05); US record: No renewal found

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