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Dishonored Lady · Beat 108 · permalink

Private office

41:57–42:58 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:2742:27

Play from 41:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 56 · shots 230–230. 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, wearing a light-colored shirt, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • Madeline (named at t:42:56): woman, dark hair, wearing a dark dress with a light collar, standing visible, audible
Also said
“The illusion you built up about me?” 42:38 · “Madeline.” 42:56
Seen
desk [frame:1], shelves with books and jars [frame:1], door [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: love and insecurity, professional anxiety, emotional vulnerability; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film noir, focused on character interaction

A man sits at a desk while a woman stands nearby in a room with shelves and a door; they discuss love and insecurity during a conversation about an upcoming convention. The woman asks if he could ever stop loving her, and he reassures her while she questions whether his love is real or based on an illusion.

“You know, I'm gonna feel kinda silly at that convention. Course, it's a great honor and all that, but...” 42:04 · “I was just thinking how I'd feel if you didn't love me. Oh, don't be silly. Not a chance.” 42:18 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 42:27 (passage 41:57–42:58); US record: No renewal found

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