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Dishonored Lady · Beat 101 · permalink

Private office

38:56–39:19 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:0439:04Frame at 39:1639:16

Play from 38:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 211–212. 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, mid-30s to 50s, dark suit, white shirt, dark tie, slicked-back hair visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s to 50s, dark dress or jacket, styled dark hair, pearl earring visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman face each other in conversation. [frame:1]
  • The woman leans her head against the man's shoulder in an embrace. [frame:2]
Also said
“Please go.” 39:06 · “If you need me, let me know. Don't call the past too many names.” 39:08
Seen
wall art, pearl earring
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, melancholic; themes: regret, unresolved past, emotional farewell; style notes: medium close-up framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests mid-century studio production

A man and a woman have a tense conversation in an interior setting; the woman asks the man to leave, and he responds with a warning about calling the past names. The interaction ends with them embracing.

“Why should I tell him?” 39:00 · “You're absolutely right, you shouldn't. Men prefer to keep their illusions, don't they?” 39:01 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 39:04 (passage 38:56–39:19); US record: No renewal found

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