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Indiscreet · Beat 73 · permalink

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28:20–28:23 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:2228:22

Play from 28:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 118–118. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • A woman in a black-and-white portrait, wearing a beaded dress and a long necklace, with styled hair and a slight smile. visible
  • Unseen person holding the photograph; only fingers and part of a hand are visible. visible
Seen
portrait photograph [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; themes: memory, personal keepsake; style notes: Close-up shot with soft lighting, typical of early 1930s film portraiture; focus on the photograph suggests emotional or narrative significance.

A person holds a black-and-white portrait photograph of a smiling woman wearing a beaded dress and necklace. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 28:22 (passage 28:20–28:23); US record: No renewal found

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