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British Intelligence · Beat 61 · permalink

Living room

14:03–14:26 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:0514:05Frame at 14:1214:12Frame at 14:2014:20Frame at 14:2414:24

Play from 14:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 45 · shots 122–126. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • man in military uniform with medals and shoulder boards visible
  • older man in tuxedo with bow tie visible
  • Miss Hodgrey (named at t:14:08): woman in dark dress with white collar and hat visible
  • Mr. Thompson (named at t:14:11): man in dark suit with white pocket square visible
Seen happening
  • A man in uniform stands with others in a room with bookshelves and a table. [frame:1]
  • The group is shown standing near furniture and flowers; one man gestures. [frame:2]
  • A man in uniform speaks directly to the camera. [frame:3]
  • A man in tuxedo stands beside a seated woman in a chair. [frame:4]
Also said
“We're so glad you were able to come to us.” 14:15 · “I understand you've had quite a time, but in Germany...” 14:19
Seen
{'item': 'bookshelves', 'evidence': 'frame:1, frame:3'} [frame:1, frame:3], {'item': 'round table with flowers', 'evidence': 'frame:1, frame:2'} [frame:1, frame:2], {'item': 'armchair with patterned upholstery', 'evidence': 'frame:4'} [frame:4], {'item': 'wall clock', 'evidence': 'frame:4'} [frame:4], {'item': 'framed painting', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and subdued; themes: formal welcome, post-war conversation, military presence; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, symmetrical framing

Four people are in a room with bookshelves and formal furniture; one man in uniform speaks while others listen. A woman is addressed as Miss Hodgrey and a man as Mr. Thompson; they are welcomed and asked to sit.

“Won't you sit down, Miss Hodgrey?” 14:08 · “Mr. Thompson?” 14:11 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 14:05 (passage 14:03–14:26); US record: No renewal found

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