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British Intelligence · Beat 145 · permalink

Living room

40:01–40:37 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 40:0340:03Frame at 40:2140:21

Play from 40:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 294–295. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a bowler hat and suit visible, audible
  • Francis (named at t:40:04): man, middle-aged, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, visible from chest up, wearing a light dress and necklace, standing in doorway visible
  • person seen from back, dark coat, entering doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a bowler hat stands facing another man in a tuxedo. [frame:1]
  • A woman appears in a doorway as a person enters from behind. [frame:2]
Also said
“Mrs. What's wrong? Did you stay in the body? Did you come in here?” 40:32 · “Why, who?” 40:36
Seen
bowler hat, tuxedo with bow tie, doorway, necklace, candlesticks
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: concealment, urgency, identity; style notes: tight framing on faces, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men speak urgently in a dim interior; one, in a bowler hat, is told to open a door. A woman appears in a doorway as another person enters, and dialogue suggests concealment and urgency.

“Francis.” 40:04 · “Open the door.” 40:05 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 40:03 (passage 40:01–40:37); US record: No renewal found

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