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British Intelligence · Beat 96 · permalink

Living room

25:41–25:58 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:4225:42Frame at 25:4525:45Frame at 25:5225:52

Play from 25:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 63 · shots 207–209. 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, frame:2, frame:3
Time of day
night evidence: t:25:54
People
  • Mr. Bennett (named at t:25:45): man, middle-aged, wearing tuxedo and bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, wearing light-colored nightgown with ruffles visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Mr. Bennett stands in a doorway holding a glass. [frame:1]
  • The woman stands on a staircase holding a book. [frame:2]
  • Mr. Bennett looks down, standing in a dim room. [frame:3]
Also said
“My dear, what are you doing down here at this time of night?” 25:54 · “I came after a book.” 25:57
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1, frame:3], nightgown [frame:2], book [frame:2], glass [frame:1], staircase [frame:2], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, slightly tense; themes: domestic intrusion, nocturnal encounter, class and formality; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, staged interior

A man in evening wear greets a woman in a nightgown on a staircase at night; she says she came for a book. The setting is an interior with stairs and doors, lit for a scene.

“Good evening, Mr. Bennett.” 25:45 · “Oh, hello.” 25:48 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 25:42 (passage 25:41–25:58); US record: No renewal found

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