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Indiscreet · Beat 166 · permalink

Living room

55:38–56:15 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:4255:42Frame at 55:4855:48Frame at 55:5255:52Frame at 56:0556:05

Play from 55:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 70 · shots 285–288. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress visible, audible
  • man, short hair, wearing a light-colored suit visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman gestures while speaking to a man. [frame:1]
  • A framed portrait of a man in historical attire hangs on the wall. [frame:2]
  • The woman lifts a large framed portrait, revealing its back. [frame:3]
  • The man stands with hands on hips, watching the woman near a fireplace. [frame:4]
Also said
“Oh, baby, this is a perfect house for a vain impo.” 55:59 · “I have worked here and it will take me days. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Ah-ha.” 56:04
Seen
framed portrait [frame:2], large framed portrait [frame:3], fireplace [frame:4], armchair [frame:4], small figurines [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: playful and slightly tense; themes: social interaction, domestic space, humor through exaggeration; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition with centered fireplace and portraits

A man and a woman interact in a room with a fireplace and framed portraits; the woman adjusts a large portrait while the man watches. The transcript includes dialogue about doing something and a comment on the house being suitable for a vain impostor.

“If you feel like doing something, why shouldn't you do it?” 55:41 · “Oh, for example. I don't like his expression.” 55:46 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 55:42 (passage 55:38–56:15); US record: No renewal found

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