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Indiscreet · Beat 90 · permalink

Restaurant

34:55–35:27 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:5834:58Frame at 35:0535:05Frame at 35:1535:15Frame at 35:2235:22

Play from 34:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 159–163. 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 formal wear (tuxedo, white shirt), dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with dark styled hair, wearing a light-colored dress with ruffled shoulders, dark lipstick visible
Seen happening
  • The woman is shown listening, seated at the table. [frame:2]
  • The woman reacts with a slight turn of her head, still seated. [frame:3]
  • The man raises his hand in a celebratory gesture after securing the job. [frame:4]
Also said
“No matter what I suggested it seemed, she didn't need me.” 35:10 · “Thanks, Buster.” 35:25
Seen
glassware, cigarette, table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted and conversational; themes: romantic pursuit, employment negotiation, social interaction in a public venue; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggesting evening setting

A man and a woman are seated at a table in a dimly lit venue; the man speaks about his efforts to secure a job with the woman, who initially declined his offers but hired him after he suggested she might want to raise a family. The man celebrates his success at the end of the beat.

“The minute I made eyes on Gary Trent...” 34:55 · “Chopper?” 35:01 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 34:58 (passage 34:55–35:27); US record: No renewal found

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