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Indiscreet · Beat 144 · permalink

Garden

51:28–51:53 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 51:2951:29Frame at 51:3651:36Frame at 51:4351:43Frame at 51:4851:48

Play from 51:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 255–258. 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
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Julie (named at t:51:41): woman in dark dress, short hair, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stirs his tea at a table. [frame:1]
  • A man and woman face each other at a dinner table. [frame:2]
  • A man eats from a spoon. [frame:3]
  • A woman pours from a pitcher at the table. [frame:4]
Also said
“Two button shoes.” 51:45 · “Pardon me.” 51:52
Seen
tea cup, spoon, glass, dinner table, pitcher, food
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and conversational; themes: dining etiquette, social interaction; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume

A man and a woman are seated at a dinner table outdoors, exchanging dialogue and passing items. The setting appears to be a garden or patio at night, with tableware and food visible.

“Would you pass the sugar?” 51:31 · “Thank you, Julie.” 51:41 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 51:29 (passage 51:28–51:53); US record: No renewal found

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