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Indiscreet · Beat 123 · permalink

Private office

46:11–47:09 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 46:4046:40

Play from 46:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 227–227. 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 light suit, standing, facing right visible
  • Buster Collins (named at t:46:23): man in dark suit, standing, facing left visible, audible
  • woman seated at desk, light-colored blouse, short hair visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in an office while a woman sits at a desk. [frame:1]
Also said
“I should be very glad if it were to. We're anxious the gym should settle down.” 46:46 · “But, uh... What do you know about these trends?” 46:56
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], framed picture [frame:1], window with bars [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: social class, marriage as social arrangement, business and personal life; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films, characters positioned to suggest confrontation or inquiry

Two men stand in a room speaking while a woman sits at a desk; one man identifies himself as Buster Collins and asks about a marriage plan. The setting appears to be an office with a desk, telephone, and framed wall decor.

“I'm the son of Timothy Collins. Buster Collins. Well, we knew you when you were that high. Now I'm this high.” 46:23 · “I came in here to ask you, Mr. Woodward, if you knew that Jim intended to marry Joan Trent.” 46:36 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 46:40 (passage 46:11–47:09); US record: No renewal found

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