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Indiscreet · Beat 124 · permalink

Living room

47:09–47:37 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:1747:17Frame at 47:3147:31

Play from 47:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 47 · shots 228–229. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, pocket square, neat hair visible, audible
  • man in light suit, mustache, lapel pin visible, audible
  • woman seated, light blouse, short hair visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit gestures toward a seated woman while another man stands nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“There's a bootlegger.” 47:23 · “Oh, but I can see you're not interested. Oh, buster. Just a minute.” 47:33
Seen
suit (dark) [frame:1], suit (light) [frame:2], desk or table with telephone [frame:2], sofa or chair [frame:2], framed picture on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: suspicion, revelation, social tension; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, formal attire suggests 1930s setting

Two men in suits speak in a room while a woman sits nearby; one man gestures as he speaks. The transcript reveals a conversation about a bootlegger and an aunt, with one speaker dismissing the claim as nonsense.

“Tell us what you heard.” 47:11 · “Oh, it doesn't matter much. Oh, it certainly does.” 47:12 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 47:17 (passage 47:09–47:37); US record: No renewal found

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