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Lady Confesses · Beat 1 · permalink

Bar

0:00–28:32 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: quote not verbatim. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:472:47Frame at 12:1612:16Frame at 15:2615:26Frame at 23:4923:49

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Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–24. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:4
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a patterned dress, holding a telephone receiver visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark sequined dress visible
  • man, wearing a suit, seated at a table visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark suit, seated at a table visible
  • man, partially visible, appears to be drunk visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is seen on the phone in a room with a lamp and a small table. [frame:1]
  • A man is seen in a dark, blurry shot, appearing intoxicated. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a sequined dress is shown in a close-up. [frame:3]
  • A man and a woman are seated at a table in a bar, talking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Why don't you go lie down in my dressing room for a while? Oh, I don't want to lie down. I gotta go see Vicki.” 7:20 · “Oh, Vicki, I've been trying to reach you all evening. I must see you.” 9:43
Seen
telephone, lamp, table, glassware
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: marital conflict, jealousy, alcoholism, deception; style notes: black-and-white, close-ups on faces, high-contrast lighting, medium shots in social settings

A woman identifies herself as Larry Craig's wife and confronts Vicki McGuire, who is planning to marry him. Later, Larry is seen drunk at a club and is persuaded to rest before meeting Vicki again.

“Are you Vicki McGuire? Why, yes.” 1:26 · “I understand you're planning to marry my husband. Yes, I was planning to.” 1:39 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 Lady Confesses (1945) at 2:47 (passage 0:00–28:32); US record: No renewal found

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