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Indiscreet · Beat 5 · permalink

Private office

2:34–3:21 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 2:572:57

Play from 2:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 3 · shots 5–5. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Jerry (named at t:3:05): woman, dark hair, wearing a dark sleeveless dress, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
  • Jim (named at t:3:13): man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit with a white bow tie and boutonniere, visible in frame:1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a dark dress gestures while speaking to a man in a suit. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm starting it with myself, me, Jerry, your ex, uh... Jerry.” 3:05 · “Bye, Jim. Have a good New Year.” 3:13
Seen
dark sleeveless dress [frame:1], dark suit with white bow tie and boutonniere [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resolved; themes: breakup, self-reliance, New Year's resolution; style notes: medium shot, formal attire, black-and-white, studio lighting

A woman and a man in formal wear have a tense conversation in an interior setting; she declares she will start the New Year alone and leaves. The man is addressed as Jim, and she identifies herself as Jerry, his ex.

“Will you please be serious?” 2:34 · “Tim, you've been the only man in my life.” 2:43 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 2:57 (passage 2:34–3:21); US record: No renewal found

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