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Dishonored Lady · Beat 42 · permalink

Private office

16:56–17:12 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:5816:58Frame at 17:0217:02Frame at 17:0817:08Frame at 17:1117:11

Play from 16:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 93–97. 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 wavy hair, wearing a dark textured dress with a necklace and earrings visible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a light suit with a bow tie and pocket square visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is shown listening with a serious expression. [frame:1]
  • The man is shown speaking, looking toward the woman. [frame:2]
  • The man continues speaking, expression stern. [frame:3]
  • The woman looks up, expression unchanged. [frame:4]
Also said
“Madeline, why don't you get wise to Everybody else is.” 17:00 · “You try to dress it up with pretty words, but you don't fool anybody. They know what you are, and you will never change. Get out!” 17:07
Seen
{'item': 'dark textured dress', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'necklace and earrings', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'light suit with bow tie and pocket square', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'framed pictures on wall', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, accusation, personal betrayal; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, static framing

A man and a woman are in a tense conversation in an interior space; the man accuses the woman of being unchanging and tells her to leave. The woman is shown listening and reacting, wearing a dark textured dress and earrings.

“Here, dear.” 16:58 · “disgusting.” 16:59 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 16:58 (passage 16:56–17:12); US record: No renewal found

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