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British Intelligence · Beat 149 · permalink

Living room

41:42–42:16 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 41:5141:51Frame at 42:0342:03Frame at 42:0642:06Frame at 42:1342:13

Play from 41:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 95 · shots 307–312. 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:3
People
  • man in a suit, middle-aged, thin build visible, audible
  • Miss Hortreid (named at t:41:43): woman in a formal white dress with puffed sleeves, dark hair styled up visible, audible
  • Francis (named at t:41:54): man in a tuxedo with bow tie, older, heavier build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman face each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman turns away from the man. [frame:2]
  • A man in a tuxedo enters the room carrying a pitcher. [frame:3]
  • The man in the tuxedo speaks to the woman while holding the pitcher. [frame:4]
Also said
“That wasn't Kurtz.” 42:12 · “But how did you know? You have never seen him.” 42:13
Seen
formal white dress [frame:1], suit [frame:1], tuxedo with bow tie [frame:3], pitcher [frame:3], candles on table [frame:3], paneled door [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: social etiquette, deception, identity; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests evening setting

A woman in a formal dress speaks with a man in a suit, then turns away; another man in a tuxedo enters holding a pitcher and speaks to her. The transcript includes apologies, farewells, and a question about someone named Kurtz.

“You know Miss Hortreid.” 41:43 · “I'm terribly sorry. Coming, Benny. Good night, Francis. Good night.” 41:54 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 41:51 (passage 41:42–42:16); US record: No renewal found

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