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Indiscreet · Beat 82 · permalink

Restaurant

33:29–33:58 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; 4 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 33:3133:31Frame at 33:3333:33Frame at 33:4533:45Frame at 33:5733:57

Play from 33:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 139–142. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Blake (named at t:33:46): man in tuxedo, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • Jerry (named at t:33:39): woman in evening gown, smiling, mid-adult, slender visible, audible
  • Mr. Smith (named at t:33:53): older woman in dark dress with floral embroidery, seated, wearing necklace visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, standing, mid-adult visible
Seen happening
  • Blake leans toward Jerry at the table while speaking. [frame:3]
  • Mr. Smith is seated at the table, listening. [frame:4]
Also said
“Meet me, Mr. Wilbur. Call me Blake.” 33:46 · “And my aunt, Mr. Smith. How do you do?” 33:53
Seen
round table with glasses and bottles, tuxedos and evening gowns, wall sconces
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and social; themes: social introduction, formal dining, interpersonal greeting; style notes: medium shots with studio lighting, static camera, black-and-white film aesthetic

A man greets a woman and introduces himself as Blake while another woman is present at a table in a crowded venue. The scene includes dialogue where names are exchanged and a reference to making speeches.

“Hello, Joe.” 33:31 · “Jerry.” 33:39 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 33:31 (passage 33:29–33:58); US record: No renewal found

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