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Indiscreet · Beat 205 · permalink

Hotel lobby

1:10:21–1:10:26 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 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 1:10:241:10:24

Play from 1:10:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 351–351. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, light shirt, tie, medium build, appears 30s-40s visible
  • man in dark uniform, hat, standing still, appears 40s-50s visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit walks toward an elevator. [frame:1]
Seen
elevator doors, carpet, wall sconce
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: urban setting, formal attire, movement toward destination; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast studio lighting, symmetrical framing with elevator as central element

A man in a suit walks toward an elevator in a hotel lobby while another man stands nearby. The scene is shot in black and white with studio lighting and no audible dialogue.

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 1:10:24 (passage 1:10:21–1:10:26); US record: No renewal found

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