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Dishonored Lady · Beat 19 · permalink

Private office

7:59–9:21 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:078:07Frame at 8:488:48

Play from 7:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 13 · shots 41–42. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing dark suit, seated visible, audible
  • Victor (named at t:8:07): man, gray hair, wearing dark suit, standing visible, audible
  • Freddie Tancher (named at t:8:04): man, dark hair, wearing tuxedo, dancing visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing evening gown, dancing visible
Seen happening
  • The woman is seen dancing with a man at a social gathering. [frame:2]
Also said
“It's much easier if you made love to me.” 9:02 · “I'll see you at the office.” 9:17
Seen
desk, armchair, window, tuxedo, evening gown
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: romantic conflict, professional obligation, gender roles; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire suggests 1940s setting

A woman and a man have a tense conversation in an office, followed by a scene of the woman dancing with another man at a social event. The dialogue suggests romantic tension and professional entanglements.

“Dining with Freddie Tancher.” 8:04 · “I couldn't get out of it, Victor. We're using some of his drawings next month.” 8:07 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 8:07 (passage 7:59–9:21); US record: No renewal found

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