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Indiscreet · Beat 76 · permalink

Bedroom

29:20–30:11 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:3729:37Frame at 30:0330:03

Play from 29:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 31 · shots 122–123. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with short dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with ruffled collar, seated on a bed visible, audible
  • Lois (named at t:29:40): woman wearing a dark dress with a white bonnet or head covering, standing near a window visible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits on a bed facing another woman who stands near a window. [frame:1]
  • A close-up of the seated woman speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“If you, my dear, come to me.” 29:54 · “My love, my own.” 30:05
Seen
bed [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], side table [frame:1], bonnet/head covering [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, nostalgic, emotionally charged; themes: memory, romantic reunion, emotional appeal; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films, minimal set dressing

A woman sits on a bed in a bedroom while another woman stands nearby; dialogue references a past signal involving singing and a bow in the parlor. The seated woman speaks lines about needing someone and starting over, while the standing woman is mentioned in the dialogue as 'Lois.'

“Don't tell me. Don't tell me.” 29:21 · “Lois, you'd sing this, which was my signal, to come in and say, "Charity, this time. You saved my life many times. Start over."” 29:40 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 29:37 (passage 29:20–30:11); US record: No renewal found

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