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British Intelligence · Beat 63 · permalink

Living room

14:54–15:21 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; 3 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 14:5714:57Frame at 15:0715:07Frame at 15:1215:12Frame at 15:2015:20

Play from 14:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 133–138. 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
People
  • Miss Hartree (named at t:14:58): older woman, light-colored hair, wearing a dark jacket over a light blouse, pearl necklace visible, audible
  • man, dark suit, patterned tie, white pocket square, mustache visible, audible
  • Dorothy (named at t:15:03): younger woman, light-colored dress, standing near a doorway visible
Also said
“I'll have your thing sent up to your room right away. Oh, they're still at the Savoy.” 15:08 · “I do.” 15:19
Seen
{'item': 'round table with papers and a vase of flowers', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'bookshelf with glass doors', 'frame': 3}, {'item': 'heavy drapes at windows', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'candlesticks on a sideboard', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, polite, slightly tense; themes: social introduction, hospitality, family dynamics; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, formal attire, period decor

A man and a woman introduce a guest to their daughter in a formal room; the man arranges for the guest's luggage to be sent to her room. The guest acknowledges she now understands she is welcome.

“Miss Hartree, my wife.” 14:58 · “And our daughter, Dorothy.” 15:03 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 14:57 (passage 14:54–15:21); US record: No renewal found

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