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Indiscreet · Beat 200 · permalink

Living room

1:08:04–1:08:39 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 1:08:221:08:22

Play from 1:08:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 85 · shots 342–342. 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 with short dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse and dark skirt, standing left visible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing a patterned dress with a brooch, standing right with hands on hips visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two women stand facing each other near a large decorated cake. [frame:1]
Also said
“Hey, what's that?” 68:35 · “But his servant tells me that he's sailing for Europe.” 68:37
Seen
large decorated cake, brooch
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: romantic conflict, social propriety, female agency; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging

Two women argue in a room with a large cake; one accuses the other of inaction while a man she loves leaves for Europe. The transcript reveals a phone call was made to confirm the man’s departure.

“Are you going to stand around all day and admire that atrocity?” 68:10 · “What do you mean? Here you are in love with a man, yet you sit around all day moping while he sails right out of your life. Are you sure he's failing? Certainly. I call his house.” 68:19 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 1:08:22 (passage 1:08:04–1:08:39); US record: No renewal found

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