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Indiscreet · Beat 17 · permalink

Living room

7:21–7:34 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:247:24Frame at 7:317:31

Play from 7:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 24–25. 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:2
People
  • woman, dark bobbed hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a sash visible
  • Tony (named at t:7:27): man, seen from back, wearing light trousers and a light shirt visible
Seen happening
  • A woman holds a telephone receiver and smiles. [frame:1]
  • A man stands near a window in a living room. [frame:2]
Also said
“Hey, Tony! What? It's all set.” 7:27 · “Hey!” 7:32
Seen
telephone receiver, sofa, coffee table, lamp, window with blinds, arched doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and conversational; themes: communication, domestic space, preparation; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, classic 1930s interior set design

A woman in a light dress holds a telephone receiver while smiling; a man in light trousers and a shirt stands near a window in a living room. The transcript includes laughter and a call to 'Tony' confirming plans are set.

“Ha ha.” 7:21 · “All right.” 7:22 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 7:24 (passage 7:21–7:34); US record: No renewal found

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