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British Intelligence · Beat 134 · permalink

Private office

36:50–37:07 Registered 1940

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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:5336:53Frame at 37:0237:02

Play from 36:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 88 · shots 279–280. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, and fedora, carrying a hat and cane visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and fedora, standing left visible
  • man in dark coat and bowler hat, seated at desk visible
  • Mr. Bell (named at t:37:05): man in light suit, standing right visible
Seen happening
  • A man enters a room through a paneled door. [frame:1]
  • Four men are present in a room with bookshelves and a desk. [frame:2]
Also said
“See you at the ward office at 8.30. Right on, sir. You two, Crichton. That's all. Yes, sir.” 37:01 · “Bye, Mr. Bell.” 37:05
Seen
paneled door, leather armchair, bookshelves, desk, umbrella, fedora hat, bowler hat, cane
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and procedural; themes: official meeting, departure, hierarchical address; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes and set design

A man in a suit and hat enters a wood-paneled room and speaks with others present. The transcript indicates a meeting concludes with instructions to meet at the ward office at 8:30 and a farewell to Mr. Bell.

“You send for me, monsieur?” 36:55 · “I sent for you.” 36:57 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 36:53 (passage 36:50–37:07); US record: No renewal found

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