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Indiscreet · Beat 68 · permalink

Living room

26:44–27:07 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 26:5626:56

Play from 26:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 29 · shots 108–108. 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, young adult, wearing a cloche hat and a dark dress with light-colored trim visible
  • man, young adult, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, tie, and pocket square visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“It was rather silly to think that” 26:52 · “It was nice of you to want to give me a party.” 27:03
Seen
cloche hat [frame:1], dark suit with pocket square [frame:1], dark dress with light trim [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: age and maturity, romantic tension, social expectations; style notes: medium close-up, soft lighting, static framing, black-and-white film aesthetic

A man and a woman stand close in a dimly lit interior, exchanging lines about age and a party. The woman wears a cloche hat and a dark dress with light trim; the man is in a suit with a pocket square.

“But what?” 26:44 · “Quit being so young.” 26:46 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 26:56 (passage 26:44–27:07); US record: No renewal found

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