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Indiscreet · Beat 183 · permalink

Living room

1:02:42–1:03:00 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:02:511:02:51

Play from 1:02:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 77 · shots 320–320. 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 blouse, seated visible
  • man, wearing a light jacket and striped trousers, leaning forward visible, audible
  • person lying down, partially covered, face not visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans toward a seated woman while speaking. [frame:1]
Seen
curtains [frame:1], furniture (sofa or bed) [frame:1], light-colored blouse [frame:1], striped trousers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: romantic past, emotional confrontation; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, typical of early sound films

A man and a woman are in a room with a third person lying down; the man speaks to the woman about a past romantic relationship with someone named Jerry. No names are visually confirmed on screen, and the setting appears to be an interior space with furniture and curtains.

“Oh, Joan. I don't think you quite understand.” 62:42 · “You see, well, you see, Jerry and I were once sweethearts.” 62:48 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 1:02:51 (passage 1:02:42–1:03:00); US record: No renewal found

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