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Indiscreet · Beat 94 · permalink

Ballroom

37:08–37:26 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 37:1737:17

Play from 37:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 174–174. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
ballroom (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in formal attire, dark hair, medium build visible
  • woman in light dress, short dark hair, slender build visible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand in close embrace, possibly dancing. [frame:1]
Also said
“Kenny and Dick...” 37:16 · “You know me.” 37:20
Seen
formal dress [frame:1], tuxedo [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: intimate, ambiguous; themes: social interaction, unresolved dialogue, intimacy; style notes: close framing, soft lighting, formal attire suggests a staged or social setting

A man and a woman are shown in a close embrace, appearing to dance or stand intimately. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue mentioning names and a child, but no clear narrative context is established from this beat alone.

“Just land, Harold Ford.” 37:09 · “There's only a child.” 37:13 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 37:17 (passage 37:08–37:26); US record: No renewal found

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