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Indiscreet · Beat 212 · permalink

Ship

1:12:46–1:13:08 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:12:491:12:49Frame at 1:12:581:12:58Frame at 1:13:061:13:06

Play from 1:12:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 92 · shots 363–365. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ship (ship, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man wearing fedora and suit, facing away from camera visible
  • man in sailor cap, back to camera visible
  • man in cap and light shirt, visible in profile visible
  • multiple people on upper deck, indistinct visible
  • man in dark suit, visible in frame 2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora gestures while speaking to others on a ship deck. [frame:1]
  • Crew members load a car onto the ship using a crane. [frame:2]
  • Passengers stand on upper decks of the ship. [frame:3]
Seen
fedora, sailor cap, car being loaded, crane, ship railings, passengers on deck
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, transactional; themes: travel, departure, uncertainty; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, wide framing to show ship scale

A man in a fedora speaks to others on a ship deck while a car is loaded below; passengers are visible on upper decks. The transcript includes a line about being on board and uncertainty about an amount.

“Well, if you see her, tell her I'm on board.” 72:48 · “I'm not sure how much.” 72:52 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 1:12:49 (passage 1:12:46–1:13:08); US record: No renewal found

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