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Indiscreet · Beat 211 · permalink

Street

1:12:15–1:12:46 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:181:12:18Frame at 1:12:231:12:23Frame at 1:12:351:12:35

Play from 1:12:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 92 · shots 360–362. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
  • man in uniform with white cap, visible in frame 3 visible
  • woman in light coat and hat, visible in frame 3 visible
  • crowd of men and women in 1930s-style hats and coats, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit walks through a crowd. [frame:2]
  • A man in uniform speaks to a woman. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, wait a minute. Really, she-- she come up about-- about hit on you.” 72:27 · “Have you got a ticket?” 72:38
Seen
suitcase [frame:2], hats (fedora, white cap, cloche) [frame:1, frame:3], uniform (dark jacket, white cap) [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and bustling; themes: public interaction, social commentary, departure; style notes: high-angle shot of crowd, medium close-up of interaction, black-and-white with high contrast lighting

A crowd of people, many in hats and coats, is shown in a busy public space; a man in a uniform speaks with a woman. Lines from the transcript suggest a conversation about a girl and voting, followed by a request for a ticket and a decision to leave.

“Have you seen a girl go right here?” 72:22 · “You think I just vote for men only?” 72:25 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 1:12:18 (passage 1:12:15–1:12:46); US record: No renewal found

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