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British Intelligence · Beat 97 · permalink

Living room

25:58–26:17 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 26:0026:00Frame at 26:1026:10

Play from 25:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 63 · shots 210–211. 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
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a satin robe, appears tired visible, audible
  • man, older, wearing formal wear (tuxedo or suit with bow tie), seen from behind and then peeking from behind a pillar visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman stands near a staircase talking to the man. [frame:1]
  • The man peers from behind a pillar or column. [frame:2]
Also said
“But you'd better run along upstairs, or you'll catch cold.” 26:04 · “You'll be yourself again in a few days. Good night, my dear.” 26:12
Seen
satin robe, staircase, formal wear (tuxedo or suit with bow tie), pillar or column
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: exhaustion, freedom, care, suspicion or secrecy; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, dramatic lighting with shadows, static camera

A woman in a satin robe speaks with a man in formal wear near a staircase; later, a man peers from behind a pillar. The dialogue suggests she is exhausted and has recently gained freedom, while he urges her to rest.

“I couldn't sleep.” 25:59 · “I just can't realize that I'm free.” 26:00 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 26:00 (passage 25:58–26:17); US record: No renewal found

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