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Indiscreet · Beat 197 · permalink

Living room

1:07:19–1:07:38 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:201:07:20Frame at 1:07:301:07:30

Play from 1:07:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 83 · shots 338–339. 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 in dark dress and white apron, wearing a maid's cap visible
  • woman with short dark hair, wearing a white blouse with ruffled collar and dark skirt visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a maid's uniform stands in a doorway holding a curtain aside. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a white blouse reacts with surprise, holding a dark garment. [frame:2]
Also said
“It's just come.” 67:24 · “See, it's just not beautiful.” 67:35
Seen
curtain [frame:1], apron [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], dark garment [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or expectant; themes: domestic service, social interaction, unspoken tension; style notes: medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films

A woman in a maid's uniform stands in a doorway; another woman in a white blouse reacts with surprise. The transcript includes a request for something wonderful to be said, followed by a comment on beauty.

“Oh, Mr.” 67:20 · “I want you to say something wonderful.” 67:22 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 1:07:20 (passage 1:07:19–1:07:38); US record: No renewal found

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