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Dishonored Lady · Beat 40 · permalink

Private office

16:21–16:36 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:2716:27Frame at 16:3416:34

Play from 16:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 89–90. 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
  • Damien (named at t:16:23): man in suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing dark dress, seated visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man enters a room and stands near a woman at a typewriter. [frame:1]
  • The man embraces the woman comfortingly. [frame:2]
Also said
“He heard me talking about Mr. Corlin. Corlin, eh?” 16:30 · “Don't you worry, baby, I'll fix that.” 16:34
Seen
typewriter, armchair, flower arrangement, framed picture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and consoling; themes: workplace conflict, romantic reassurance, power dynamics; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, period costume

A man enters a room where a woman sits at a typewriter; he comforts her after she says she was fired. The man promises to fix the situation after learning it involves someone named Corlin.

“Damien, come in again.” 16:23 · “Miss Damien's fired me. Why, as you, what for?” 16:26 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 16:27 (passage 16:21–16:36); US record: No renewal found

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