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Indiscreet · Beat 179 · permalink

Living room

1:01:06–1:01:43 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; 3 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 1:01:091:01:09Frame at 1:01:141:01:14Frame at 1:01:261:01:26Frame at 1:01:361:01:36

Play from 1:01:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 308–312. 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, seated on a chaise lounge visible, audible
  • woman, light hair, wearing a light-colored dress, standing visible, audible
  • Jones (named at t:61:10): man, wearing light-colored shirt and trousers, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits on a chaise lounge while a man and another woman stand near a fireplace. [frame:1]
  • The seated woman gestures with her right hand while holding a glass. [frame:2]
  • The standing woman and man face each other while the seated woman looks on. [frame:3]
  • The standing woman and man stand close, with the seated woman reaching toward the man. [frame:4]
Also said
“I think you'd sound more convincing with your coat on.” 61:32 · “No wonder you didn't want me to have him. You wanted him for yourself.” 61:38
Seen
chaise lounge, fireplace, round mirror, glass, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: romantic jealousy, social confrontation, emotional disclosure; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films, staged for dialogue

A woman in a white dress sits on a chaise lounge while a man and another woman stand nearby in a room with a fireplace and mirror; dialogue suggests a confrontation about romantic feelings. The seated woman gestures and speaks, and the standing woman appears to be addressing the man, with tension implied by the spoken lines.

“Don't make a scene. That's right now. Now Jones.” 61:10 · “We were just discussing things. That's right. Jim was trying to tell me how much he loved you. Well?” 61:20 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 1:01:09 (passage 1:01:06–1:01:43); US record: No renewal found

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