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British Intelligence · Beat 132 · permalink

Private office

36:00–36:23 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 36:0736:07Frame at 36:1936:19

Play from 36:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 88 · shots 273–274. 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
  • man in dark suit, bowler hat, bow tie, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in tweed jacket, light-colored hair, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing behind p2, partially visible visible
  • man in dark suit and hat, standing behind p1, partially visible visible
Also said
“That depends entirely upon what happens.” 36:07 · “Thompson's not dead.” 36:21
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1], tweed jacket [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: espionage, uncertainty, authority; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests 1940s British setting

Four men in suits and hats are in an indoor setting, discussing whether to arrest Miss Hortrey and referencing Thompson's survival. One man in a bowler hat and bow tie speaks while others listen.

“You understand your end of things, Brixton? Yes, sir.” 36:02 · “Then you intend placing Miss Hortrey under arrest tonight?” 36:04 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 British Intelligence (1940) at 36:07 (passage 36:00–36:23); US record: No renewal found

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