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Dishonored Lady · Beat 38 · permalink

Private office

15:49–16:13 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:5215:52Frame at 15:5715:57Frame at 16:0216:02Frame at 16:1016:10

Play from 15:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 84–87. 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, frame:4
People
  • Gladys (named at t:15:51): woman, mid-30s, dark hair styled in waves, wearing a dark dress with a large bow at the neck, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, curly dark hair, wearing a light-colored suit, seated at a switchboard visible
  • Miss Damon (named at t:16:08): woman, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a dark dress and a light-colored cape, standing in doorway visible
Seen happening
  • Miss Damon stands in the doorway facing Gladys. [frame:4]
Also said
“No, Miss David.” 16:10 · “Go get your money, you're through.” 16:12
Seen
telephone, desk lamp, switchboard, armchair, framed picture, cape
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: workplace conflict, gossip and privacy, professional dismissal; style notes: classic black-and-white studio lighting, medium close-ups on characters, static framing emphasizing dialogue

A woman in a dark dress speaks on the phone while seated at a desk; another woman in a light coat enters the room and confronts her. The dialogue indicates a dispute over gossiping about personal life, leading to the seated woman being fired.

“Gladys, I won my bet.” 15:51 · “I didn't hire you to gossip about my private life.” 16:08 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 15:52 (passage 15:49–16:13); US record: No renewal found

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