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Dishonored Lady · Beat 128 · permalink

Private office

49:47–50:08 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:4949:49Frame at 49:5349:53Frame at 49:5949:59Frame at 50:0550:05

Play from 49:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 281–284. 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, frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit and bow tie, light hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Garrett (named at t:49:55): man in light suit and bow tie, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Madeline (named at t:50:01): unseen, only mentioned mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit enters a room. [frame:1]
  • The man stands near a desk with books and a lamp. [frame:2]
  • A man in a light suit speaks on the telephone. [frame:3]
  • The man in the dark suit holds a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:4]
Also said
“Madeline.” 50:01 · “By the way, I've just been through the stones in my safe and one's missing.” 50:05
Seen
telephone [frame:3, frame:4], bookshelf [frame:2, frame:4], lamp [frame:2], portrait [frame:2, frame:4], couch [frame:1], chandelier [frame:1], statue [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, theft, telephone conversation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire

A man in a suit is seen in a room with bookshelves and a telephone, speaking on the phone. He mentions a missing stone from his safe and refers to someone named Madeline being present.

“Forget it on the phone, sir.” 49:49 · “Hello, Garrett.” 49:55 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 49:49 (passage 49:47–50:08); US record: No renewal found

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