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Indiscreet · Beat 49 · permalink

Living room

18:53–19:42 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 19:1719:17

Play from 18:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 79–79. 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
  • woman, wearing light-colored dress, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • man, wearing dark suit, seated, back to camera, mid-adult visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands facing a seated man in a room. [frame:1]
Also said
“You see, he's me.” 19:30 · “Idealized, of course.” 19:31
Seen
lamp [frame:1], sofa [frame:1], table [frame:1], window [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate and conversational; themes: identity, self-representation, literary allusion; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

A woman stands in a room speaking to a seated man; their conversation includes references to a book and a character who represents the man. The setting appears to be a furnished interior with lamps and large windows.

“Wait a minute. Don't peek.” 18:57 · “Tell me. Do you believe everything in that book? Of course not.” 19:15 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 19:17 (passage 18:53–19:42); US record: No renewal found

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