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Indiscreet · Beat 119 · permalink

Private office

44:33–44:58 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:4544:45

Play from 44:33 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 223–223. 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 in suit and fedora, medium build, adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man answers a telephone call. [frame:1]
Also said
“You attended to it.” 44:44 · “I didn't want to go to Washington anyway.” 44:48
Seen
telephone, desk, fedora, suit, framed picture, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: communication, professional setting, personal preference; style notes: medium shot, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white, formal attire suggests early 20th century

A man in a suit and fedora stands in an office, speaking on the telephone. He thanks someone and mentions not wanting to go to Washington.

“Hello?” 44:39 · “Yeah?” 44:41 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 44:45 (passage 44:33–44:58); US record: No renewal found

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