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Indiscreet · Beat 170 · permalink

Living room

56:38–57:29 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:0357:03

Play from 56:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 74 · shots 292–292. 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 styled in waves, wearing a light-colored draped dress visible, audible
  • man, short dark hair, wearing a light shirt and striped trousers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand close together, facing each other, in an interior setting. [frame:1]
Also said
“Just beginning to realize what a fool I was to let you get away from me.” 57:07 · “I think the only reason I ever felt for Joan in the first place was if she reminded me so much of you.” 57:28
Seen
vase with flowers, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, reflective; themes: romantic regret, comparison of lovers, reconnection; style notes: medium two-shot, soft studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man and a woman stand close together in an interior setting, speaking intimately. The dialogue suggests romantic reflection and comparison between past and present relationships.

“I don't care what they think.” 56:38 · “I have a laugh like this in years, Jerry.” 56:56 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 57:03 (passage 56:38–57:29); US record: No renewal found

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