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Dishonored Lady · Beat 161 · permalink

Private office

59:46–1:00:19 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 59:4859:48Frame at 59:5659:56Frame at 1:00:071:00:07Frame at 1:00:171:00:17

Play from 59:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 84 · shots 342–348. 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, fair hair, wearing a suit and tie visible
  • man, wearing a dark suit and a fedora visible
  • man, wearing a dark suit and a fedora, standing in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds papers and looks at the camera. [frame:1]
  • The same man in a suit is shown in a medium shot. [frame:2]
  • Two men in hats stand facing each other in a doorway. [frame:3]
  • The man in the suit is shown in a close-up. [frame:4]
Also said
“He was here, he visited her a couple of weeks ago.” 60:11 · “The landlady thought that Cortland had a key to this place.” 60:17
Seen
suit and tie, papers, fedora hats, doorway, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: interrogation, suspicion, mystery; style notes: black-and-white, medium and close-up shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man in a suit is shown in close-up and medium shots inside a room with furniture; two other men in hats stand in a doorway. The transcript contains fragmented dialogue about a woman named Miss Damien Duck, a man named Cawthon, and a visit by someone named Cortland on April 10th.

“How long have you known Miss Damien Duck?” 59:46 · “David, it's a lie. David, it's a lie.” 59:51 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 59:48 (passage 59:46–1:00:19); US record: No renewal found

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