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Indiscreet · Beat 115 · permalink

Private office

42:54–43:16 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:5642:56Frame at 42:5942:59Frame at 43:0843:08Frame at 43:1343:13

Play from 42:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 215–219. 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
  • man, wearing a white shirt and striped tie, seated, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a dark dress with a white bow at the neck, holding a telephone receiver to her ear visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man is seated and talking on the telephone. [frame:1]
  • A woman is shown talking on the telephone. [frame:2]
  • The woman continues her phone conversation. [frame:3]
  • The man is still on the phone, gesturing with his free hand. [frame:4]
Also said
“Now I've got to run down to Washington after all.” 43:04 · “I'm not going either.” 43:09
Seen
telephone receiver, telephone receiver, telephone receiver, telephone receiver, desk, ashtray
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly tense; themes: telephone conversation, travel plans, social obligation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, studio set with curtains and furniture

A man and a woman are shown in separate shots talking on the telephone. The transcript reveals they are discussing travel plans, with one declining to go to the Woodward and the other deciding not to go either.

“We don't look as if we're trying to get out of the country. We look as if we're trying to get in and” 42:54 · “I can't go to the woodward.” 43:02 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 42:56 (passage 42:54–43:16); US record: No renewal found

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