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Indiscreet · Beat 159 · permalink

Restaurant

53:50–53:53 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:5253:52

Play from 53:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 274–274. 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 light hair, wearing a patterned blouse and necklace, seated visible
  • man with balding head, wearing dark suit, seated visible
  • man in dark suit, back to camera visible
  • older woman with white hair, seated visible
Seen
{'item': 'dining tables with tablecloths', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'chairs', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'necklace worn by p1', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and social; themes: social gathering, dining scene; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting

A group of people are seated at tables in a large, dimly lit hall. One woman gestures with her arm while seated among others.

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 53:52 (passage 53:50–53:53); US record: No renewal found

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