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British Intelligence · Beat 90 · permalink

Private office

22:34–23:08 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:4722:47Frame at 23:0423:04

Play from 22:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 195–196. 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, frame:2, t:22:39
People
  • man, older, wearing suit and tie, seated then standing visible
  • woman, mid-adult, dark curly hair, wearing dark dress with white collar, seated visible
Seen happening
  • Man is seated, looking at woman. [frame:1]
  • Man stands and bows toward woman. [frame:2]
Mentioned
  • Colonel Yates is mentioned as being in the library with Monsieur Bennett. [t:22:57]
  • Miss Rizdorong is mentioned as clicking off information and typewriter keys. [t:22:44]
Also said
“He's in the library with Monsieur Bennett.” 22:57 · “Then dinner will be served at eight presads.” 23:01
Seen
staircase, typewriter, desk, door, framed picture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense; themes: espionage, hierarchy, protocol; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged interior with staircase and furniture suggesting 1940s British setting

A man and a woman are in a room with a staircase; the man stands and bows while the woman sits. The transcript mentions Bennett's office, Colonel Yates, and a library, suggesting a British Intelligence setting.

“As a rule, there are people in Bennett's office.” 22:39 · “Miss Rizdorong will click off the information and the keys of her typewriter.” 22:44 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 22:47 (passage 22:34–23:08); US record: No renewal found

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