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Dishonored Lady · Beat 54 · permalink

Private office

23:08–23:26 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:1123:11Frame at 23:2123:21

Play from 23:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 25 · shots 124–125. 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 black tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square visible, audible
  • woman, late 20s to 30s, wearing a draped gown and a decorative headpiece with a veil visible
Seen happening
  • The man stands facing the woman, hand slightly raised. [frame:1]
  • The woman looks at the man with a serious expression. [frame:2]
Also said
“About Cortland.” 23:18 · “You know, you've got a very nice job here, but you won't have it very long if I tell Cranish.” 23:20
Seen
tuxedo [frame:1], draped gown [frame:2], decorative headpiece with veil [frame:2], white pocket square [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: power dynamics, threats, professional jeopardy; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests a dramatic or noir tone

A man in a tuxedo and a woman in a draped gown face each other in an interior setting; the man speaks threateningly about revealing information to someone named Crainish. The woman listens with a serious expression as the man gestures slightly with his hand.

“You're forcing me to say things that I don't want to say, but if you're going to act cold and virtuous about it, you'll hear them.” 23:08 · “Suppose I tell Crainish” 23:14 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 23:11 (passage 23:08–23:26); US record: No renewal found

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