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Dishonored Lady · Beat 139 · permalink

Living room

53:13–54:16 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 53:4553:45

Play from 53:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 68 · shots 306–306. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, wearing dark suit and tie, standing, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Madeleine (named at t:53:57): woman, reclining on couch, dark hair, wearing dark dress visible, audible
Also said
“That'll take the chill out of your bones and maybe even your heart.” 53:29 · “Madeleine, we belong to...” 53:57
Seen
fireplace [frame:1], couch [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], dark dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: emotional conflict, romantic tension, self-doubt; style notes: medium shot, dim lighting with fireplace glow, static camera, classic 1940s film noir framing

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room with a fireplace; the man stands while the woman reclines on a couch as they speak. The dialogue suggests emotional tension and physical closeness, with references to slapping, warmth, and rain outside.

“I'm going home.” 53:18 · “Think how wonderful you feel when you slap my face.” 53:21 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 53:45 (passage 53:13–54:16); US record: No renewal found

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