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Indiscreet · Beat 39 · permalink

Living room

16:59–17:09 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 17:0017:00Frame at 17:0517:05

Play from 16:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 61–62. 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:1
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, standing visible
  • woman with headband, light-colored dress, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a room with a lamp and sculpture. [frame:1]
  • A woman sits, looking toward the camera. [frame:2]
Also said
“They might be. I didn't step in the puddle. Well, let's see.” 17:02
Seen
lamp, sculpture, headband
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mildly confused or casual; themes: domestic interaction, miscommunication; style notes: static medium shots, soft studio lighting, black-and-white, 1930s framing

A man in a suit stands in a dimly lit room with a lamp and sculpture; a woman in a headband sits nearby. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about feet and puddles, suggesting a casual or confused interaction.

“No.” 16:59 · “I think you feet away.” 17:01 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 17:00 (passage 16:59–17:09); US record: No renewal found

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