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Indiscreet · Beat 143 · permalink

Garden

51:00–51:28 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; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:1051:10Frame at 51:2351:23

Play from 51:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 253–254. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and tie, mustache, seated visible
  • woman in evening dress and head covering, seated visible
  • man in dark jacket, seated at table visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are seated at a dinner table outdoors, talking. [frame:1]
  • A third man joins the table and speaks to the woman. [frame:2]
Also said
“Nothing.” 51:18 · “Ha ha!” 51:25
Seen
dinner table [frame:1], wine glasses [frame:1], teacup [frame:1], trees [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational; themes: social dining, romantic tension, casual conversation; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films

A man and a woman sit at a dinner table outdoors, conversing while another man joins them. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about unbreakable items and company.

“You know you can get a kind that won't break.” 51:04 · “You can't better than. What's the matter?” 51:13 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 51:10 (passage 51:00–51:28); US record: No renewal found

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