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Indiscreet · Beat 30 · permalink

Vehicle interior

13:34–14:28 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0114:01

Play from 13:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 50–50. 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 wearing a fedora and overcoat, seen from back visible, audible
  • woman wearing a hooded coat, holding a small object, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman and man stand facing each other in a vehicle interior. [frame:1]
Also said
“She worked so hard to pay for my schooling over here and...” 14:00 · “Don't forget, that's our secret.” 14:25
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], hooded coat [frame:1], small object held by woman [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and nostalgic; themes: family bonds, secret engagement, nostalgia for home; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman stand facing each other in a dimly lit interior, discussing family and an engagement. The woman speaks of her sister's sacrifices and their secret engagement, while the man listens.

“I'll be so glad to get home to see Sis and Ed cute.” 13:37 · “It's been two years.” 13:43 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 14:01 (passage 13:34–14:28); US record: No renewal found

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