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36:22–37:08 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 36:4536:45

Play from 36:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 173–173. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing formal attire (dark suit, white shirt, bow tie), middle-aged, medium build visible
  • woman, wearing light-colored dress, dark hair styled in a bob, slender build visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman are dancing closely. [frame:1]
Also said
“Roses round the door, titties on the floor. Are you gonna go for best? Why not? I love him.” 36:40 · “Why? You know why.” 37:03
Seen
formal attire [frame:1], light-colored dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, ambiguous; themes: romantic tension, social roles, unspoken feelings; style notes: close framing on dancers, soft focus, high contrast lighting typical of early sound films

A man and a woman are dancing closely in a dimly lit interior. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about being 'best' and mentions of roses and Joan, but no names are spoken that identify the individuals.

“Can I be best named?” 36:29 · “He's the best man I ever knew.” 36:31 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 36:45 (passage 36:22–37:08); US record: No renewal found

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