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Indiscreet · Beat 53 · permalink

Living room

21:07–21:40 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:1621:16Frame at 21:3221:32

Play from 21:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 87–88. 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, tie, neat hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman, light blouse, headband, seated, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman are seated facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The man gestures with his hand while speaking to the woman. [frame:2]
Also said
“Won't hurt him.” 21:14 · “The modern baby face looks up at the chump she's going to marry and says...” 21:25
Seen
suit [frame:1], blouse [frame:1], headband [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational, slightly ironic; themes: honesty in relationships, marriage, gender roles; style notes: medium close-up shots, studio lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

A man and a woman are in a room, having a conversation about honesty and marriage. The man gestures while speaking, and the woman listens, both appearing engaged in the dialogue.

“That's what I thought. On the other hand, it might be wise for her to say nothing.” 21:08 · “What a man doesn't know.” 21:12 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 21:16 (passage 21:07–21:40); US record: No renewal found

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