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Indiscreet · Beat 208 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:11:30–1:12:10 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; 5 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 1:11:431:11:43Frame at 1:11:591:11:59Frame at 1:12:061:12:06

Play from 1:11:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 355–357. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform and white cap, likely an attendant or conductor visible, audible
  • woman in white maid's uniform with dark apron and headband visible
  • man in fedora and overcoat, holding a ticket visible
  • man in fedora and overcoat, standing next to p3 visible
  • person climbing steps onto vehicle, wearing dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • People are boarding a vehicle via steps. [frame:1]
  • An attendant checks a ticket from a passenger. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a maid's uniform smiles at the attendant. [frame:3]
Also said
“Beep, beep.” 72:00 · “Come on.” 72:04
Seen
ticket [frame:2], vehicle steps [frame:1], uniform cap [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], fedora hats [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: hurried and procedural; themes: boarding, travel, service roles; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films

People board a vehicle while a uniformed attendant checks tickets. A woman in a maid's uniform smiles at the attendant.

“Everything is ready.” 71:33 · “Have your ticket ready, please.” 71:57 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 1:11:43 (passage 1:11:30–1:12:10); US record: No renewal found

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