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Indiscreet · Beat 59 · permalink

Living room

23:28–24:22 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 23:3523:35Frame at 24:0224:02

Play from 23:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 95–96. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • woman, light-colored blouse, visible in frame 1, leaning back visible, audible
  • man, dark suit, visible in both frames, standing in frame 2 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man turns and walks toward a doorway. [frame:2]
Also said
“And my. And my sister comes in tomorrow. And I have some letters to write. Oh those aren't reasons.” 23:44 · “Wait, I'll go with you.” 23:55
Seen
framed pictures on wall [frame:2], armchair with blanket [frame:2], wall-mounted light fixture [frame:2], small table or cabinet [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: farewell, domestic space, emotional hesitation; style notes: close two-shot followed by medium shot; high-contrast lighting; static camera

A woman and a man are in a room; the woman speaks about the weather and her sister’s visit before the man begins to leave. The man then turns to follow her as she moves toward a doorway.

“Oh, it's cold.” 23:28 · “Oh why it's raining. No. It's not.” 23:39 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 23:35 (passage 23:28–24:22); US record: No renewal found

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