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Indiscreet · Beat 112 · permalink

Living room

42:09–42:21 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 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 42:1242:12Frame at 42:1842:18

Play from 42:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 204–205. 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
  • darling (named at t:42:12): woman with dark hair in a 1930s-style dress with a large bow at the neck visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, partially visible in background, wearing a light-colored dress visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands at a vanity and looks down at it. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns toward the camera, smiling, holding a telephone receiver to her ear. [frame:2]
Seen
vanity, telephone receiver, stool, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, lighthearted; themes: domestic life, telephone communication, fashion; style notes: medium close-up, soft studio lighting, static framing, period costume detail

A woman stands at a vanity in a room with curtains, then turns to smile while holding a telephone receiver. Another woman is visible in the background. The transcript includes the line 'Hello, darling.'

“Hello, darling.” 42:12 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 42:12 (passage 42:09–42:21); US record: No renewal found

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