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Indiscreet · Beat 9 · permalink

Private office

4:56–5:22 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:105:10

Play from 4:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 12–12. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing formal dark suit with white vest and bow tie, holding a hat visible
  • woman, seen from back, wearing dark dress with suspenders over white blouse visible
Seen happening
  • The man stands still near a doorway while the woman turns away from him. [frame:1]
Also said
“Tim!” 5:19 · “Come back.” 5:20
Seen
door with knob, hat held by man, wall-mounted shelf or fixture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or unresolved; themes: departure, unresolved conversation, formal social setting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests early 1930s studio production

A man in formal attire stands near a doorway as a woman in a dark dress with suspenders turns away from him. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue, including a name 'Jerry' and a call 'Tim!' as the woman appears to leave.

“Definitely about this, Jerry.” 5:01 · “It was beautiful, but it lasted...” 5:11 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 5:10 (passage 4:56–5:22); US record: No renewal found

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