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Indiscreet · Beat 4 · permalink

Living room

1:57–2:34 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:042:04Frame at 2:222:22

Play from 1:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 3–4. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing formal suit and bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, dark hair styled in a bob, wearing a dark sleeveless dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, after all, my dear, a man must live.” 2:17 · “Will you please be serious?” 2:34
Seen
formal suit [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], dark sleeveless dress [frame:1], curtained window or wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: romantic tension, social decorum, personal identity; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire suggests a dramatic or romantic scene

A man in formal wear and a woman in a dark dress stand close together indoors, speaking. The transcript shows them discussing appearance and seriousness, with the man making a remark about living.

“Jerry, that's not like you.” 1:59 · “I know. I'm a brunette.” 2:01 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 2:04 (passage 1:57–2:34); US record: No renewal found

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