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British Intelligence · Beat 64 · permalink

Private office

15:21–15:36 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 15:2815:28

Play from 15:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 139–139. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in dark dress and hat, standing left visible
  • man in tuxedo, standing second from left visible
  • woman in light dress, standing center visible
  • woman in dark dress with white collar, standing right of center visible
  • older man in vest and bow tie, standing far right visible
Seen
curtains, formal attire
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and tense; themes: class hierarchy, wartime anxiety, bureaucratic command; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, period costumes, symmetrical framing

A group of five people stands in a room with curtains and formal attire; one woman gives an order about luggage at the Savoy, and another line mentions fearing America. No names are spoken that can be assigned to visible individuals.

“May we, madame? Miss Hortrey's luggage is at the Savoy. See that it's brought here. At once, madame.” 15:25 · “Fear the America.” 15:34 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 15:28 (passage 15:21–15:36); US record: No renewal found

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