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Indiscreet · Beat 97 · permalink

Restaurant

37:40–37:43 Registered 1931

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 37:4237:42

Play from 37:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 177–177. 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 boutonniere, standing visible
  • woman in light-colored evening gown, standing visible
  • man seated at table, wearing tuxedo visible
  • woman seated at table, wearing dark dress with lace visible
  • woman seated at table, back to camera, light-colored dress visible
  • man seated at table, partially visible visible
  • patrons in background, formally dressed visible
Seen
{'item': 'round table with white tablecloth', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'wine glasses and bottles on table', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'tuxedos and evening gowns', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'balcony with railings in background', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and social; themes: social gathering, formal attire, public dining; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, staged composition

A crowded indoor venue with formally dressed patrons seated at tables and a couple standing near one table. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 37:42 (passage 37:40–37:43); US record: No renewal found

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