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Indiscreet · Beat 120 · permalink

Living room

44:58–45:22 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 45:1045:10

Play from 44:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 46 · shots 224–224. 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 dark suit and light trousers, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a patterned robe or dress, seated, mid-adult, dark hair styled up visible, audible
Also said
“But I'm defeated.” 45:04 · “I don't know why you're on my side.” 45:09
Seen
vase with flowers, armchair, sculpture or bust
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: romantic conflict, personal sacrifice, intervention in family matters; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films, actors positioned to emphasize dialogue

A man and a woman stand in a room; the man speaks about being defeated and the woman responds emotionally. The man intends to speak with Jim's father to cancel an arrangement.

“I'm terribly sorry about you and Jones.” 44:58 · “I did all I could.” 45:01 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 45:10 (passage 44:58–45:22); US record: No renewal found

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