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Indiscreet · Beat 128 · permalink

Living room

48:36–49:20 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:3648:36Frame at 48:3948:39Frame at 48:5748:57Frame at 49:1749:17

Play from 48:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 234–237. 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, frame:2, frame:4
People
  • woman, dark hair styled in a bob, wearing a dark dress with a V-neck and light dots, seated and reading visible
  • Calma (named at t:48:36): man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit with a white pocket square, seated next to p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman reads a book while seated. [frame:1]
  • A man and woman sit together; the man speaks to the woman. [frame:2]
  • The man leans toward the woman, smiling, as she looks at him with a serious expression. [frame:3]
  • The woman stands and pours a drink from a decanter into a glass while the man watches. [frame:4]
Also said
“I'd rather not tell you.” 48:52 · “I don't.” 49:19
Seen
book [frame:1, frame:2], decanter [frame:4], glass [frame:4], side table [frame:4], vase with flowers [frame:2], armchair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: romantic tension, secrets and disclosure, social maneuvering; style notes: medium shots, static camera, soft lighting, close framing on characters' faces to emphasize dialogue

A man and a woman are seated in a room; the woman reads while the man speaks to her. The woman later stands and pours a drink from a decanter while the man watches.

“How'd you do, Calma?” 48:36 · “I don't think there'll be any Woodward marrying any Trent.” 48:43 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 48:36 (passage 48:36–49:20); US record: No renewal found

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