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Indiscreet · Beat 62 · permalink

Private office

25:11–25:25 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 25:1825:18

Play from 25:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 99–99. 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
  • woman wearing a light-colored dress and a cloche hat with a bow visible
  • man in a dark suit and tie, clean-shaven, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • The woman and man stand facing each other in a room with a door behind them. [frame:1]
Seen
cloche hat with bow [frame:1], dark suit and tie [frame:1], door with panel [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: miscommunication, social obligation; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man and a woman stand facing each other indoors; the woman reacts to being told to give something to the man. No names are spoken, and no objects are visible beyond their clothing and the room’s door.

“Give it to him.” 25:13 · “- Me?” 25:15 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 25:18 (passage 25:11–25:25); US record: No renewal found

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