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Indiscreet · Beat 24 · permalink

Living room

9:50–10:47 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:549:54Frame at 10:2110:21Frame at 10:4610:46

Play from 9:50 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 7 · shots 39–41. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • woman with long dark hair, wearing a light-colored robe or dress, seated visible
  • man in a suit, standing, facing away from camera visible
  • man in a suit, standing, facing camera visible
  • Mrs. Kate Smith (named at t:10:41): woman in a light dress, standing visible
  • Mrs. Jerry Trent (named at t:10:41): woman in a light dress, standing visible
  • Mr. Anthony Blake (named at t:10:41): man in a suit, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sings while seated at a table with bottles. [frame:1]
  • The woman continues singing, smiling. [frame:2]
  • Three people stand in a living room; two women and one man face each other. [frame:3]
Also said
“Give me love and you can keep the best of it, I know the best of it.” 10:13 · “Mrs. Kate Smith and Mrs. Jerry Trent may represent Mr. Anthony Blake. That's great, Buster.” 10:41
Seen
bottles, sofa, chairs, picture frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and theatrical; themes: love, social roles, performance; style notes: studio-lit, medium close-ups and medium shots, static framing, black-and-white

A woman sings in a room with bottles on a table; later, three people stand in a living room. A line names Mrs. Kate Smith, Mrs. Jerry Trent, and Mr. Anthony Blake.

“If you haven't got love” 10:03 · “Light and sweet, but love provides a list of air.” 10:06 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 9:54 (passage 9:50–10:47); US record: No renewal found

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