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British Intelligence · Beat 155 · permalink

Garden

43:26–48:01 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; 5 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 45:4345:43

Play from 43:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 99 · shots 321–321. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, clean-shaven visible, audible
  • Helene (named at t:44:36): woman in light dress with floral pattern, mid-adult, dark hair styled up visible, audible
  • Thompson (named at t:44:06): man, voice only, not visible audible
  • Millie Thompson (named at t:46:25): man, voice only, not visible audible
  • Raviswood Bennett (named at t:47:49): man, voice only, not visible audible
Also said
“For Germany. For Germany.” 45:06 · “Why, to Germany, of course. Oh, of course. But I think I'd better see that you go there this night.” 47:01
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], light floral dress [frame:1], foliage [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: moral conflict, wartime loyalty, personal sacrifice; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man and a woman have a tense conversation outdoors at night, during which the woman refuses to flee with him despite his warnings of danger. The man then departs, and another character, identified as Millie Thompson, arrives and interacts with the man.

“We're both in terrible danger, Helene. I'm getting out. I want you to come with me.” 44:36 · “What good is work such as ours?” 45:02 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 45:43 (passage 43:26–48:01); US record: No renewal found

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