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Indiscreet · Beat 71 · permalink

Living room

27:57–28:19 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:5827:58Frame at 28:0328:03Frame at 28:0828:08Frame at 28:1428:14

Play from 27:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 29 · shots 113–116. 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:2
People
  • woman with dark bobbed hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with ruffled collar visible, audible
  • woman with light-colored cloche hat and dark dress with white collar visible, audible
  • child in photograph, wearing bonnet and frilly dress visible
Seen happening
  • A hand holds up a photograph of a child wearing a bonnet. [frame:1]
  • Two women stand together, one holding a photo, the other smiling at it. [frame:2]
  • A hand holds up a different photograph of a child in a frilly dress and hat. [frame:3]
  • The two women lean over a table, looking at photos together. [frame:4]
Also said
“Aha!” 28:06 · “What the well-dressed baby used to wear.” 28:08
Seen
photograph of child in bonnet [frame:1], photograph of child in frilly dress [frame:3], table [frame:2], cloche hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and nostalgic; themes: childhood, fashion, memory; style notes: static medium shots, soft lighting, close framing on faces and objects

Two women examine photographs of a child in a domestic interior. One woman holds up a photo while the other looks on; they appear to be discussing the child's attire.

“There you are before going to Paris.” 27:59 · “before and after.” 28:02 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 27:58 (passage 27:57–28:19); US record: No renewal found

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