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Dishonored Lady · Beat 117 · permalink

Private office

45:24–45:54 Registered 1947

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 3 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 45:2745:27Frame at 45:3845:38Frame at 45:4245:42Frame at 45:5145:51

Play from 45:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 248–253. 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
  • Madeline (named at t:45:28): woman with dark curly hair, wearing a white blouse and dark vest, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
  • woman with blonde curly hair, wearing a light-colored dress with polka dots, holding a telephone receiver visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Madeline is on the phone, speaking urgently. [frame:1]
  • Madeline continues her phone call, looking concerned. [frame:2]
  • The second woman responds on the phone, appearing surprised and hesitant. [frame:3]
  • The second woman listens intently, her expression showing concern. [frame:4]
Also said
“Will you remember that art supplement? The one you started? Well, I do need your help, dear. I'm in an awful mess.” 45:39 · “I'll never come into that office again as long as I live.” 45:46
Seen
telephone [frame:1], staircase [frame:1], desk [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and pleading; themes: urgency, conflict, pleading for help; style notes: close-up shots, black-and-white, studio lighting, focused on facial expressions and telephone as a prop

A woman named Madeline is on the phone, pleading with another woman to meet her, claiming she is in trouble and will not return to the office. The conversation is tense and urgent, with the second woman expressing reluctance.

“This is Madeline.” 45:28 · “I pestered that doctor of yours for hours. I just have to talk to you.” 45:34 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 45:27 (passage 45:24–45:54); US record: No renewal found

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