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Indiscreet · Beat 21 · permalink

Bathroom

9:00–9:20 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; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:029:02Frame at 9:099:09Frame at 9:179:17

Play from 9:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 34–36. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bathroom (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, wearing a robe, mid-adult, visible in all frames visible
  • woman, wearing a robe, mid-adult, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a robe bends over a bathtub. [frame:1]
  • Two women in robes stand facing each other; one holds a towel. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a robe holds a towel and gestures. [frame:3]
Also said
“They never are, dearie.” 9:11 · “I want new buffalo seal.” 9:15
Seen
towel [frame:2], bathtub [frame:1], mirror [frame:1], wall-mounted light [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational; themes: domestic life, fashion, personal preference; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films, minimal set design

A woman in a robe is seen in a bathroom, interacting with another woman who holds a towel; dialogue suggests a discussion about personal preferences and a book. No names are spoken, and the setting is clearly a private bathroom with visible fixtures.

“I still like them even after cold showers.” 9:03 · “If he's anything like his book, he's wonderful.” 9:09 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 9:02 (passage 9:00–9:20); US record: No renewal found

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