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Dishonored Lady · Beat 177 · permalink

Courtroom

1:04:45–1:05:32 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; 8 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 1:04:471:04:47Frame at 1:05:021:05:02Frame at 1:05:261:05:26Frame at 1:05:301:05:30

Play from 1:04:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 378–382. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, glasses, standing visible
  • Mrs. Geiger (named at t:64:46): woman in patterned suit and hat, seated visible
  • older man with white hair, dark suit, seated visible
  • man in tuxedo with bow tie, seated at table visible
  • woman with dark hair, profile view visible
  • man in suit, facing p4, back to camera visible
  • audience members in formal attire, seated visible
  • man in suit, front row, looking forward visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks to another man across a table. [frame:3]
  • The courtroom audience watches the proceedings. [frame:4]
  • A man in glasses speaks to a seated woman in a courtroom. [frame:1]
  • An older man and a woman in profile are shown in close-up. [frame:2]
Also said
“Confidential secretary, I suppose you'd call it.” 65:10 · “I'd rather not answer that question.” 65:25
Seen
wooden bench, courtroom table, audience seating, window with blinds, microphone on table, woman's hat with bow, man's bow tie, spectacles
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: legal confrontation, secrecy, defensive strategy; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal courtroom framing

A courtroom scene unfolds with a witness being questioned about confidential work for Mr. Cortland, while a defendant and attorney discuss strategy. The audience watches as tensions rise over a lie concerning Miss Damien's character.

“Thank you, Mrs. Geiger.” 64:46 · “Your witness, Mr. Mitchell.” 64:48 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 1:04:47 (passage 1:04:45–1:05:32); US record: No renewal found

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