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Dishonored Lady · Beat 55 · permalink

Private office

23:26–24:26 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; 4 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 23:2723:27Frame at 23:5723:57

Play from 23:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 126–127. 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 to 40s, wearing dark suit and bow tie, neat hair visible
  • partially visible person, dark hair, wearing light-colored garment visible
  • Damien (named at t:23:50): unseen speaker audible
  • Richard Caleb (named at t:24:19): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands in an office, touching his chin thoughtfully. [frame:1]
  • Hands dial a rotary telephone. [frame:2]
Also said
“Boulevard Magazine.” 23:50 · “Here, Richard Caleb, 137.” 24:19
Seen
rotary telephone [frame:2], desk [t:23:35], office interior [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: betrayal, search for a missing person, professional downfall; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up on character, tight framing on hands and phone, high-contrast lighting

A man in a suit stands in an office while another person is partially visible; a close-up shows hands dialing a rotary phone. The transcript reveals a conversation about a woman named Damien, her former workplace at Boulevard Magazine, and her abandoned apartment, with a phone call being placed to locate her.

“As a blackmailer, you are pitiful.” 23:29 · “Go on, use my phone if you want, and my desk, and my office. I'm through with all of them.” 23:35 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 23:27 (passage 23:26–24:26); US record: No renewal found

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