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Dishonored Lady · Beat 74 · permalink

Cafeteria

29:43–30:50 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 30:1730:17

Play from 29:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 164–164. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
cafeteria (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a jacket with a white collar visible, audible
  • man, light hair, wearing a suit and tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman and a man stand at a cafeteria counter. [frame:1]
  • The man holds a plate with food. [frame:1]
  • The woman speaks to the man while looking at him. [frame:1]
Also said
“We got together the first night over a bottle of vodka.” 30:09 · “Stop to eat ever since.” 30:38
Seen
cafeteria counter [frame:1], plate with food [frame:1], sign reading 'BUSY BEE CAFETERIA' [frame:1], radio advertisement sign [frame:1]
On screen
BUSY BEE CAFETERIA
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and conversational, with undertones of nostalgia and wartime reflection; themes: postwar civilian life, nostalgia for wartime experiences, social outings and urban nightlife; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot framing the two characters at counter height, studio lighting with clear visibility of facial expressions and background signage

A man and a woman stand at a cafeteria counter; the man holds a plate while the woman speaks. The transcript includes dialogue about going out at night, meeting friends at the Busy Bee cafeteria, and a story about wartime experiences in Germany involving Russian officers and vodka.

“We're meeting a few friends at the Busy Bee cafeteria. We don't want to miss the floor show. We'll have to hurry.” 29:47 · “I got onto it first up in a little town in Germany while I was still in the army.” 29:58 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 30:17 (passage 29:43–30:50); US record: No renewal found

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