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Indiscreet · Beat 43 · permalink

Living room

17:38–18:00 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; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:4317:43Frame at 17:5417:54

Play from 17:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 69–70. 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, dark suit, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Blake (named at t:17:43): woman, light dress, dark hair with headband, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man kneels beside a woman on a couch and speaks to her. [frame:1]
  • The man holds a small object toward the woman. [frame:1]
  • The woman smiles and holds an object near her chest. [frame:2]
Also said
“You know, Blake. Let Dr. Blake hear your phone.” 17:43 · “I'm the one who's just begun to live.” 17:54
Seen
couch, small object held by man, small object held by woman
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate; themes: romantic dialogue, personal revelation, invention as metaphor; style notes: medium shot to close-up transition, soft lighting, static camera, 1930s film composition

A man kneels beside a woman seated on a couch; they speak while holding small objects. The woman is later shown in close-up, smiling and holding an object near her chest.

“There we are.” 17:39 · “An inventor as well as a writer.” 17:41 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 17:43 (passage 17:38–18:00); US record: No renewal found

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