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Indiscreet · Beat 92 · permalink

Restaurant

35:49–36:22 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; 5 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 35:5135:51Frame at 36:0236:02Frame at 36:1736:17

Play from 35:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 170–172. 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 with bow tie and boutonniere, mustache, short hair visible, audible
  • woman in light dress with ruffled shoulders, short dark hair visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing behind p2 visible
  • man in tuxedo, dancing with p5 visible
  • woman in light dress, dancing with p4 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks at a table. [frame:1]
  • A woman and two men stand at a table with glasses and plates. [frame:2]
  • A couple dances in a crowded room. [frame:3]
Also said
“Yeah!” 36:07 · “*Ding*” 36:10
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], boutonniere [frame:1], dining table with glasses and plates [frame:2], dance floor with other couples [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and social; themes: social gathering, formal dining, dancing; style notes: studio-lit, medium close-ups and medium shots, black-and-white, period costume

A man in formal wear speaks at a table, then a woman and two men stand at the same table, and finally a couple dances in a crowded room. The transcript includes brief spoken lines and a sound effect.

“May I pass a surprise today? Of course.” 35:52 · “Carry it.” 35:56 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 35:51 (passage 35:49–36:22); US record: No renewal found

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