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Indiscreet · Beat 148 · permalink

Outdoor dining area

52:58–53:14 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 5 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 53:0653:06

Play from 52:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 263–263. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
outdoor dining area (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, standing left visible
  • man in light suit, standing center visible
  • woman in patterned dress, gesturing with right hand visible
  • man in dark coat, standing right visible
  • person in patterned top, seated back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A woman gestures with her right hand while speaking to others around a table. [frame:1]
  • Five people are gathered around a set table outdoors. [frame:1]
Seen
set dining table with glasses and plates [frame:1], dark foliage background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal yet tense, suggested by posture and gesture; themes: social gathering, unresolved dialogue; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting typical of early sound films, staged composition

A group of five people stands around a set table outdoors at night; one woman gestures while speaking. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established beyond the darkness.

“I” 52:58 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 53:06 (passage 52:58–53:14); US record: No renewal found

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