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Indiscreet · Beat 96 · permalink

Restaurant

37:32–37:40 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:3637:36

Play from 37:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 176–176. 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 attire (tuxedo, bow tie) visible, audible
  • woman with short hair, wearing dark dress with embellishments and necklace visible
Seen happening
  • A man gestures while speaking to a woman at a table. [frame:1]
Seen
dining table with glasses and bottles, formal dinnerware, crowd of seated and standing people
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: social, conversational; themes: social interaction, dinner scene, dialogue-driven moment; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, crowded background

A man and a woman sit at a table in a crowded room; the man speaks while the woman listens. The transcript includes a line referencing 'Buffalo Bill' and a comment on dancing.

“That's how dancer it was!” 37:34 · “Buffalo Bill.” 37:36 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 37:36 (passage 37:32–37:40); US record: No renewal found

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