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Dishonored Lady · Beat 52 · permalink

Private office

21:47–22:49 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:1222:12Frame at 22:4322:43

Play from 21:47 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 118–119. 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:2
People
  • woman, light-colored dress, dark beret, gloves, standing near window visible
  • Ethel (named at t:22:06): woman, dark dress, curly hair, standing near desk visible, audible
  • Mr. Cortland (named at t:22:16): man, dark suit, tie, standing behind desk visible, audible
  • Madeline (named at t:22:37): woman, not visible audible, mentioned
Also said
“Hello, Madeline.” 22:37 · “I'm on a jam. I've got to raise some money. I need about $5,000.” 22:43
Seen
desk, stacks of papers and books, large window with city view, sofa, painting on wall, telephone
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: personal crisis, financial pressure, interpersonal negotiation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal office decor

Two women and a man are shown in an office setting; one woman speaks about changing her life and offers her apartment, while another woman and a man discuss a phone call and a request for money. The dialogue suggests a tense, transactional interaction involving personal and financial matters.

“You can have my apartment, Ethel. The rents pay till the end of the month.” 22:06 · “It's Damien's office.” 22:14 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 22:12 (passage 21:47–22:49); US record: No renewal found

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