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British Intelligence · Beat 74 · permalink

Private office

17:03–17:33 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 17:1817:18

Play from 17:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 153–153. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in military uniform, balding, medium build visible, audible
  • Thompson (named at t:17:07): older man in tuxedo with bow tie, white hair, standing visible, audible
  • Miss Hortree (named at t:17:15): unseen, addressed as 'mademoiselle' audible, mentioned
Also said
“Pardon, mademoiselle. I take so long.” 17:28 · “How do you?” 17:31
Seen
lamp, curtains, desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and polite; themes: farewell, duty, social etiquette; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static framing

Two men exchange farewells in a room with curtains and a lamp; one is in uniform, the other in a tuxedo. One mentions packing trunks and a boat train leaving at seven, and another is told to look after Miss Hortree.

“Well, I must run along. My trunk's aren't packed yet, and the boat train leaves at seven. Well, have a good trip, Thompson.” 17:07 · “Look after Miss Hortree.” 17:15 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 17:18 (passage 17:03–17:33); US record: No renewal found

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