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British Intelligence · Beat 41 · permalink

Bedroom

8:04–8:27 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:088:08Frame at 8:188:18Frame at 8:258:25

Play from 8:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 79–81. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, bandaged head, wearing dark robe, lying in bed visible
  • Hannah (named at t:8:26): unseen person, likely female (from name 'Hannah' at t:8:26), interacting with p1 audible, mentioned
  • Frank (named at t:8:12): unseen person, possibly male (from 'Frank' at t:8:12), mentioned in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man is lying in bed with a bandaged head. [frame:1]
  • Another person touches the man's face. [frame:2]
  • The man remains in bed, looking upward. [frame:3]
Also said
“Come back.” 8:23 · “Why, Hannah?” 8:26
Seen
bandage [frame:1], bed [frame:1], pillow [frame:1], robe [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: injury, urgency, personal appeal, bedside confrontation; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

A man with a bandaged head lies in bed while another person interacts with him; dialogue includes names and urgent requests. The setting appears to be a bedroom with minimal furnishings and focused lighting.

“This is Alfred Bennett.” 8:05 · “I've got to Frank.” 8:12 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 8:08 (passage 8:04–8:27); US record: No renewal found

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