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Dishonored Lady · Beat 6 · permalink

Private office

3:26–4:40 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 3:423:42Frame at 4:024:02Frame at 4:174:17Frame at 4:344:34

Play from 3:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 9–12. 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
  • Doctor (named at t:3:48): man, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit with a white pocket square, standing or leaning visible, audible
  • Alice (named at t:4:30): woman, young, dark hair, wearing a dark off-the-shoulder dress with embellished neckline, lying on a chaise lounge visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is lying on a chaise lounge while the man stands over her. [frame:1]
  • The man leans over the woman, speaking to her. [frame:2]
  • The woman sits up slightly on the chaise lounge, looking at the man. [frame:3]
  • The woman stands up from the chaise lounge as the man stands behind her. [frame:4]
Also said
“You tell me how much I owe you, Alice.” 4:30 · “I'll drive you to the station.” 4:35
Seen
chaise lounge, bookshelf, dark suit with white pocket square, off-the-shoulder dress with embellished neckline, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: psychological introspection, gender roles and autonomy, professional intrusion into personal life; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing emphasizing power dynamics

A woman lies on a chaise lounge while a man in a suit speaks to her; he identifies himself as a psychiatrist and suggests she is avoiding self-reflection. She insists she is not his patient and prepares to leave, asking to be driven to the station.

“I happen to be a psychiatrist.” 3:48 · “I don't need a psychiatrist.” 3:51 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 3:42 (passage 3:26–4:40); US record: No renewal found

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