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Indiscreet · Beat 70 · permalink

Living room

27:25–27:57 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:3727:37Frame at 27:5227:52

Play from 27:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 111–112. 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 in light dress, dark hair, standing near doorway visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar and headpiece, back to camera visible
  • man in suit, holding hat, gesturing visible
  • woman in light dress with scarf, smiling, seated at table visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar, smiling, standing behind p4 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman gestures toward objects while speaking. [frame:1]
  • Two women smile near a table with objects. [frame:2]
Also said
“And you too, Mrs. Brown?” 27:35 · “The way you go. It was only yesterday I was looking at these.” 27:49
Seen
curtains, hat, table, scarf
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite farewell with undertones of nostalgia; themes: farewell, domestic setting, social interaction; style notes: medium shots, soft lighting, static framing, period costumes

A group of people in a room say goodbye; one woman gestures toward objects while another smiles nearby. The setting includes curtains and furniture, with two women and one man visible across two frames.

“See you about 7:30.” 27:25 · “And you, Tony?” 27:32 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 27:37 (passage 27:25–27:57); US record: No renewal found

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