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Dishonored Lady · Beat 100 · permalink

Private office

38:37–38:56 Registered 1947

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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:4738:47

Play from 38:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 210–210. 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
People
  • man, middle-aged, slicked-back hair, wearing dark suit and tie visible, audible
  • woman, middle-aged, dark wavy hair, wearing dark jacket and pearl necklace visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and woman stand close together in a dimly lit room, facing slightly away from each other. [frame:1]
Also said
“And you think you've really got it? Love Eternal, the fireside, the slippers, the whole thing? Yes.” 38:43 · “You haven't told him, have you?” 38:54
Seen
pearl necklace [frame:1], dark suit and tie [frame:1], dark jacket [frame:1], framed mirror or painting on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: melancholic and tense; themes: unrequited love, domestic ideal vs. reality, emotional restraint; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man and a woman stand close together in a dimly lit interior; the woman appears somber while the man speaks. The transcript reveals a conversation about love, unspoken feelings, and a third person not present.

“I don't feel like laughing.” 38:38 · “I've always wondered if it were possible for people like you and me” 38:40 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 Dishonored Lady (1947) at 38:47 (passage 38:37–38:56); US record: No renewal found

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