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Indiscreet · Beat 125 · permalink

Private office

47:37–48:31 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:4547:45Frame at 48:1248:12

Play from 47:37 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 230–231. 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, thin build, short dark hair visible
  • man in dark suit, medium build, short dark hair, white pocket square visible, audible
  • woman in light dress, pearl necklace, dark hair styled up visible, audible
  • older woman, light dress, pearl necklace, dark hair styled up visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit speaks to two others in a room with bookshelves. [frame:1]
  • The same man gestures while speaking; an older woman is now visible beside him. [frame:2]
Also said
“Jane?” 48:11 · “insanity in the family.” 48:12
Seen
bookshelves [frame:1], suit (dark) [frame:1], suit (light) [frame:1], dress (light) [frame:1], pearl necklace [frame:2], pocket square (white) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: family secrets, revelation, social tension; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, bookshelf background suggests a serious setting

Three people stand in a room with bookshelves; one man speaks while the others listen. A woman interrupts with a plea, and the dialogue suggests a revelation about family insanity.

“Tell us what you know.” 47:37 · “Danny, wait!” 48:10 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 47:45 (passage 47:37–48:31); US record: No renewal found

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