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Dishonored Lady · Beat 41 · permalink

Private office

16:36–16:56 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; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:4316:43Frame at 16:5316:53

Play from 16:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 91–92. 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, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a suit and bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, mid-30s, dark hair, wearing a dark patterned dress visible
Seen happening
  • The man gestures while speaking to the woman seated at a desk. [frame:1]
  • The man is shown in a closer shot, still speaking. [frame:2]
  • The woman is seated, listening to the man. [frame:1]
Also said
“You don't hey no I don't but it's pretty late to be thinking about a thing like that and so rotten pretty to take it out on your secretary get out.” 16:44 · “Boys were betting eight to five this morning that the Cortland layout would be in the next issue.” 16:52
Seen
desk [frame:1], chair [frame:1], file cabinet [frame:1], vase with pens [frame:1], wall-mounted speaker [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: workplace conflict, gossip, professional reputation; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, mid-century office decor

A man and a woman are in an office; the man speaks while the woman listens. The transcript indicates a dispute about firing a secretary and gossip, and mentions a betting line on a magazine layout.

“Understand you fired June. - That's right. - That's the idea.” 16:38 · “I don't like people to gossip about me.” 16:41 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 16:43 (passage 16:36–16:56); US record: No renewal found

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