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Indiscreet · Beat 56 · permalink

Living room

22:20–22:51 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:2622:26Frame at 22:4122:41

Play from 22:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 91–92. 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, frame:2
People
  • woman, mid-20s to 30s, wearing a white blouse and dark skirt, standing with hands clasped visible
  • man, 30s to 40s, wearing a dark suit, standing near a doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a room, looking distressed. [frame:1]
  • A man stands near a doorway, facing the room. [frame:2]
Also said
“I don't even want to know who he is.” 22:37 · “Just promise me you'll never see him again.” 22:43
Seen
white blouse [frame:1], dark suit [frame:2], doorway [frame:2], furniture (sofa, table, lamp) [frame:2], framed pictures on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and emotionally charged; themes: romantic conflict, emotional ultimatums, personal sacrifice; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, minimal set design typical of early sound films

A woman in a white blouse stands in a room while a man in a suit stands near a doorway; the transcript contains a plea about never seeing someone again. No names are spoken, and no objects beyond furniture are clearly identifiable.

“Did you love him?” 22:24 · “If you love him, I'll die. I only thought I did.” 22:27 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 22:26 (passage 22:20–22:51); US record: No renewal found

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