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Indiscreet · Beat 78 · permalink

Living room

31:20–32:43 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 31:3231:32Frame at 32:1332:13

Play from 31:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 31 · shots 129–130. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman with short dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse with ruffled sleeves and dark skirt visible, audible
  • Jerry (named at t:32:00): woman with light-colored headscarf, wearing a dark dress with white collar and back straps visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two women stand facing each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • One woman adjusts the other’s collar or hair while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, Jerry, you wear the cutest clothes, says the most adorable things, and dances divinely. If you'd ever met him, you'd remember him.” 32:00 · “It'll be a wonderful party. Really, it will. What a party I'd give.” 32:24
Seen
curtained window, lamp, framed picture, furniture (partial)
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational, slightly flirtatious; themes: social preparation for a party, romantic anticipation, female friendship and grooming; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, soft studio lighting, period costume detail visible

Two women converse in a room; one mentions meeting a man in Paris and refers to another as her future brother-in-law. They discuss attending a party and getting manicures, with one woman complimenting the other’s appearance and dance skills.

“Who is he?” 31:20 · “Your future brother-in-law. Yes. Oh, it's terrific.” 31:26 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 31:32 (passage 31:20–32:43); US record: No renewal found

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