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Indiscreet · Beat 7 · permalink

Living room

3:26–4:31 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:293:29Frame at 3:353:35Frame at 4:054:05

Play from 3:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 8–10. 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
  • Jerry (named at t:3:29): man, middle-aged, formal wear (tuxedo, white tie) visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, evening dress with straps, styled hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room. [frame:1]
  • The woman smiles and extends her hand toward the man. [frame:2]
  • The woman touches her head with her hand while looking at the man. [frame:3]
Also said
“I really mean it this time, Jerry.” 4:18 · “No, I'm afraid there'd be too little marriage and too much All that.” 4:26
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], evening dress [frame:1], framed picture [frame:3], curtains [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and playful; themes: marriage proposals, past relationships, skepticism and humor; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films

A man in formal wear proposes to a woman in an evening dress inside a room; she reacts with surprise and skepticism. The dialogue reveals a history between them, with references to past proposals and a secret marriage.

“Will you marry me?” 3:31 · “She married all of us. The chorus girl, the widow, and... Who told you? Oh, it's a secret. Nobody knows but me. And the Associated Press.” 3:42 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 3:29 (passage 3:26–4:31); US record: No renewal found

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