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55:41–55:52 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 55:4255:42Frame at 55:4455:44Frame at 55:4755:47Frame at 55:5155:51

Play from 55:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 103 · shots 378–381. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, dark hair combed back, wearing formal black tuxedo with white bow tie visible
  • woman, young adult, dark curly hair, wearing light-colored formal dress, visible earrings visible
Seen happening
  • A woman's wrist with a decorative watch is shown in close-up. [frame:1]
  • A man in a tuxedo looks at the woman's wrist as she extends her arm. [frame:2]
  • The woman looks at the man while holding her wrist out for him to see. [frame:3]
  • The man speaks to the woman, his expression serious. [frame:4]
Also said
“When Strindler is wrong, he admits it.” 55:49
Seen
wristwatch, tuxedo, formal dress, earrings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: formal social interaction, apology or admission of fault, identity or verification via object (watch); style notes: close-up framing on hands and faces, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s studio films, static camera

A man in formal wear examines a woman's wristwatch while she holds out her arm; dialogue suggests an apology and a character named Strindler. The setting appears to be an indoor formal event, with no visible windows or clocks to establish time.

“For my name.” 55:44 · “My deepest regrets.” 55:45 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 55:42 (passage 55:41–55:52); US record: No renewal found

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