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Indiscreet · Beat 89 · permalink

Restaurant

34:35–34:55 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; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:3834:38Frame at 34:4334:43Frame at 34:4734:47Frame at 34:5134:51

Play from 34:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 155–158. 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
  • man in tuxedo, smiling, holding a glass visible, audible
  • woman in dark patterned dress, seated, holding glass, later in white ruffled dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman sit at table with drinks, man smiling. [frame:1]
  • Man turns head, speaking, holding glass. [frame:2]
  • Man raises glass, smiling. [frame:3]
  • Woman and man face each other closely. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, here to... Well, what shall we do?” 34:41 · “I have something important to drink to.” 34:52
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], formal dress [frame:1], wine glasses [frame:1], table with bottles and glasses [frame:1], white ruffled dress [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light and social; themes: social gathering, romantic tension, formal dining; style notes: close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man and a woman are seated at a table in a formal setting, speaking and holding drinks. The man raises a glass while speaking, and the woman listens, then faces him closely in the final frame.

“Heh.” 34:35 · “What a party I'm giving.” 34:36 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 34:38 (passage 34:35–34:55); US record: No renewal found

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