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Dishonored Lady · Beat 160 · permalink

Bedroom

59:18–59:46 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; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:1959:19Frame at 59:3259:32Frame at 59:3659:36Frame at 59:4559:45

Play from 59:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 336–341. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Miss Damien (named at t:59:29): woman with dark curly hair, lying in bed, wearing light-colored robe or nightgown visible, audible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing or leaning near bed visible, audible
  • David (named at t:59:44): man in suit, standing near bed, holding newspaper visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman lies in bed looking alarmed. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand beside the woman’s bed; one holds a newspaper. [frame:2]
  • A man in a fedora leans toward the woman in bed, speaking to her. [frame:3]
  • The woman looks off to the side with a concerned expression. [frame:4]
Also said
“But I didn't go into the house. I met him by accident.” 59:29 · “David, don't look at me like that.” 59:44
Seen
ornate bed frame [frame:2], newspaper [frame:2], fedora hat [frame:3], light-colored robe or nightgown [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: interrogation, denial, suspicion, domestic intrusion; style notes: close-ups and medium shots emphasize emotional reactions; high-contrast lighting typical of film noir; static camera framing focuses on dialogue and character tension

A woman lies in bed while two men question her; one man is identified as David. The transcript indicates police are present in a house for the first time, and the woman denies entering a house she was seen near.

“I want to know what's going on in here. This is my house and I've got to know.” 59:20 · “Now, Miss Damien, tell us what happened last night. What time did you leave Cortland's house?” 59:29 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 59:19 (passage 59:18–59:46); US record: No renewal found

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