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Dishonored Lady · Beat 56 · permalink

Private office

24:26–24:52 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 24:2924:29Frame at 24:4224:42

Play from 24:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 128–129. 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 in dark suit, seated, tie, neat hair visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding hat, white pocket square, neat hair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands holding a hat while facing a seated man at a desk. [frame:1]
  • The two men face each other closely, in a tense posture. [frame:2]
Also said
“You come here for information, not diagnosis.” 24:38 · “But I have nothing for sale.” 24:49
Seen
desk, hat, window with blinds, flower arrangement, bookshelf, inkwell and pens
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: power dynamics, professional boundaries, moral contamination; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing, period costume

Two men in suits are in a private office; one is seated at a desk, the other stands holding a hat. They exchange tense dialogue about contamination and payment for information.

“Well, I've nothing to do with that.” 24:27 · “I take it you consider me part of the general contamination.” 24:35 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 24:29 (passage 24:26–24:52); US record: No renewal found

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