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Indiscreet · Beat 149 · permalink

Restaurant

53:14–53:22 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:1853:18

Play from 53:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 264–264. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with short dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar, seated visible, audible
  • woman with dark hat and patterned blouse, seated, facing p1 visible
  • man in light suit, seated at table, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • Two women are seated at a table in a crowded restaurant, one leaning toward the other. [frame:1]
Also said
“Mm-hmm.” 53:19
Seen
dining table [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], dishes and glassware [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual conversation; themes: social interaction, dining scene; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, black-and-white film

Two women sit at a table in a crowded dining room; one speaks while the other listens. The transcript includes a reference to 'Mr. Woodward's new Buffalo Bill.'

“Why, Kate, I haven't used...” 53:15 · “Mr. Woodward's new Buffalo Bill.” 53:16 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 53:18 (passage 53:14–53:22); US record: No renewal found

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