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British Intelligence · Beat 118 · permalink

Private office

31:34–31:42 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 31:3831:38

Play from 31:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 76 · shots 253–253. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a beret and light coat, seated at a desk visible
  • man wearing glasses and a dark suit, seated at a desk holding a newspaper visible
  • man in dark clothing, standing behind a counter in the background visible
Seen
{'item': 'newspapers', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'wooden desk', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'counter', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'poster on wall', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, focused; themes: office work, news consumption; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal composition

A woman and a man sit at a desk in an office, reading newspapers; another man is visible behind a counter in the background. 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 British Intelligence (1940) at 31:38 (passage 31:34–31:42); US record: No renewal found

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