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Indiscreet · Beat 57 · permalink

Living room

22:51–23:05 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:5822:58

Play from 22:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 93–93. 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, dark hair, wearing a light-colored dress and a headband, looking down visible
  • Jerry (named at t:22:56): man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, standing behind the woman with his hand on her shoulder visible
Seen happening
  • The man places his hand on the woman's shoulder. [frame:1]
Also said
“once I” 23:03
Seen
lamp [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or intimate; themes: confession, personal revelation, intimacy; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, black-and-white, static framing

A man and a woman stand close in an interior setting; the man places his hand on the woman's shoulder as she looks down. The transcript includes the name 'Jerry' and a partial confession.

“Jerry.” 22:56 · “I have a confession to make.” 23:00 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 22:58 (passage 22:51–23:05); US record: No renewal found

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