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Indiscreet · Beat 113 · permalink

Living room

42:21–42:50 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 42:2442:24Frame at 42:3742:37Frame at 42:4442:44Frame at 42:4942:49

Play from 42:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 206–213. 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
  • man, wearing a white shirt, tie, and trousers, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair styled in a bob, wearing a dark dress or blouse, seen in profile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man is standing and talking on the telephone. [frame:1]
  • A woman is seen in profile, holding a telephone receiver to her ear. [frame:2]
  • The man is seated at a desk, holding a telephone receiver and a small book or notebook. [frame:3]
  • The man continues to speak on the phone while looking at the book. [frame:4]
Also said
“How much should I give the minister?” 42:34 · “We're a great pair.” 42:48
Seen
telephone receiver, desk, book or notebook, curtains, lamp, sofa
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conspiratorial; themes: marriage, deception, planning; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period decor

A man and a woman are on the phone in separate rooms, discussing wedding plans and passports. The man is seated at a desk, holding a telephone receiver and a small book, while the woman is shown in profile, also on the phone.

“Oh, hello, darling. Everything's all set.” 42:23 · “Ten o'clock, the little church around the corner. Then to your house for food. Ha ha. I'm no fool.” 42:27 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 42:24 (passage 42:21–42:50); US record: No renewal found

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