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Indiscreet · Beat 185 · permalink

Living room

1:03:02–1:03:29 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:141:03:14Frame at 1:03:261:03:26Frame at 1:03:281:03:28

Play from 1:03:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 78 · shots 322–324. 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:3
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light-colored suit and tie visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress with a sash at the waist visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair in a bob, wearing a light-colored backless dress visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other while another woman looks on. [frame:1]
  • The man and the first woman embrace while the second woman watches. [frame:2]
  • The second woman turns and walks away from the couple. [frame:3]
Also said
“All over again.” 63:17 · “Haven't we, dear?” 63:20
Seen
fireplace [frame:3], round mirror [frame:3], side table with flowers [frame:3], couch [frame:3], doorway [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: romantic reunion, emotional confrontation, triangular relationship; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films

A man and a woman in a living room speak and embrace while another woman watches, then walks away. The dialogue suggests a romantic reconnection between the man and the first woman.

“You and Jerry?” 63:09 · “We just discovered each other.” 63:15 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 1:03:14 (passage 1:03:02–1:03:29); US record: No renewal found

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