I heard a statement that I wanted to ask the site about. However, I heard the claim in a movie, and therefore I cannot link to the scene in question (due to copyright issues, etc). Would an honest transcript of the scene in question and a timestamp be sufficient sourcing of the claim?

on august 17 I asked the following question about a result that I got: does anyone know if this is already known" ? the question was put "on hol" and was closed today. May be Mathoverflow is not the good forum to ask if some Mathematical fact is already known or not; if so can anyone explain me w...