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Indiscreet · Beat 114 · permalink

Private office

42:50–42:54 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:5242:52

Play from 42:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 214–214. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing light-colored dress, visible in photograph and in person visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing suit and tie, visible in photograph and in person visible
Seen
passport document, photograph
On screen
This is to certify that the attached photograph is a likeness of the person to whom this passport is issued. In witness whereof the seal of the Department of State is
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, procedural; themes: identity verification, official documentation, intimacy within bureaucracy; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films, static composition

A man and a woman are shown in a close-up, looking at a document that includes a passport photograph and certification text. The scene appears to be indoors, with no spoken dialogue provided in this beat.

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 42:52 (passage 42:50–42:54); US record: No renewal found

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