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Dressed to Kill · Beat 10 · permalink

Shop

4:50–5:53 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:225:22

Play from 4:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 24–24. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, wearing a bowler hat, dark suit, bow tie, holding a cane visible, audible
  • older man, wearing glasses, dark suit, bow tie, white pocket square, holding a small object visible, audible
Also said
“Oh, I'm sorry, sir, but they were sold.” 5:15 · “Five pounds.” 5:46
Seen
musical box [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], cane [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], pocket square [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, tense negotiation; themes: commerce, desire, information as commodity; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, period costume

A man in a bowler hat and suit speaks with a shopkeeper in a formal interior, asking about three sold musical boxes and offering five pounds to learn the buyers' identities. The shopkeeper initially refuses to disclose buyer information but relents after the man cites sentimental reasons.

“We're closed. But this is extremely important.” 4:56 · “I'm sorry to disturb you, but I was unfortunately delayed from arriving in time to bid on certain articles which I was rather anxious to obtain.” 5:01 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 Dressed to Kill (1946) at 5:22 (passage 4:50–5:53); US record: No renewal found

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