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British Intelligence · Beat 88 · permalink

Living room

21:54–22:07 Registered 1940

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 21:5521:55Frame at 21:5821:58Frame at 22:0422:04

Play from 21:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 188–190. 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:3
People
  • woman wearing dark heels and stockings, visible from knees down visible
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing a vest and tie, looking upward visible
  • man in dark suit helping a woman with her coat near a staircase visible
  • woman in dark dress receiving help with her coat visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks down stairs in heels. [frame:1]
  • A man in a vest looks upward. [frame:2]
  • A man helps a woman with her coat near a staircase. [frame:3]
Seen
stairs [frame:1], heeled shoes [frame:1], vest and tie [frame:2], staircase with wooden railing [frame:3], coat [frame:3], framed picture on wall [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: social etiquette, domestic setting, minor inconvenience; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged composition typical of 1940s studio films

A woman's heels are shown on stairs, then a man in a vest looks up, and finally a man helps a woman with her coat near a staircase. The transcript includes a comment about a loose shoe heel and a request for a dictionary.

“The heel on my shoe seems to be loose.” 21:57 · “I want a good dictionary. Oh, and of course, mademoiselle.” 22:00 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 21:55 (passage 21:54–22:07); US record: No renewal found

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