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British Intelligence · Beat 35 · permalink

Vehicle interior

7:20–7:21 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:207:20

Play from 7:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 73–73. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • gloved hands, likely adult, manipulating a telephone receiver visible
Seen happening
  • Gloved hands hold a coiled telephone receiver in a confined space. [frame:1]
Seen
telephone receiver [frame:1], gloves [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confined; themes: communication, confinement; style notes: close-up, high contrast lighting, grainy black-and-white film

A close-up shows gloved hands manipulating a coiled telephone receiver inside a dimly lit, confined space. No people are named, no dialogue is present, and the setting is not clearly identifiable beyond being an interior.

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 7:20 (passage 7:20–7:21); US record: No renewal found

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