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British Intelligence · Beat 163 · permalink

Private office

50:15–50:36 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; 2 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 50:1750:17Frame at 50:2650:26Frame at 50:2950:29Frame at 50:3550:35

Play from 50:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 100 · shots 344–349. 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
People
  • Francis Hawtry (named at t:50:16): man, military uniform with insignia, dark hair, mid-30s, medium build visible, audible
  • Helen (named at t:50:22): woman, dark hat with netting, light blouse, dark jacket, fair skin, 20s-30s visible, audible
Also said
“You were the girl who nursed me back for the living after I cracked up.” 50:25 · “I tried to trace you. I heard you've been captured in the German advance.” 50:30
Seen
military uniform [frame:1], hat with netting [frame:1], dark jacket [frame:3], light blouse [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: identity, war, memory, deception; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in military uniform and a woman in a hat converse indoors; the man claims to know the woman's name and past, while she questions his identity. The dialogue reveals he believes she nursed him and was captured during a German advance.

“You're no more Francis Hawtry than I am.” 50:16 · “Your name is Helen.” 50:22 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 50:17 (passage 50:15–50:36); US record: No renewal found

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