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British Intelligence · Beat 159 · permalink

Private office

49:08–49:24 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:0949:09Frame at 49:1749:17

Play from 49:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 100 · shots 329–330. 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
  • woman, blonde, wearing dark suit and white blouse visible
  • man, middle-aged, wearing military uniform with epaulets visible
  • man, seen from back, wearing military uniform with shoulder strap visible
Seen happening
  • A woman embraces a man in uniform. [frame:1]
  • A man in uniform walks away from the camera toward a doorway. [frame:2]
Also said
“White hole 9-4-0, please.” 49:20
Seen
telephone, framed portrait, desk, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: military duty, farewell, communication under pressure; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period military costumes

A woman and two men are in a room; one man is embraced by the woman while another man walks away toward a doorway. A phone call is requested for 'White hole 9-4-0'.

“I'm sorry.” 49:11 · “I'm going to go.” 49:13 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 49:09 (passage 49:08–49:24); US record: No renewal found

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