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Dressed to Kill · Beat 100 · permalink

Private office

48:02–48:20 Registered 1946

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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 48:0848:08Frame at 48:1648:16Frame at 48:1948:19

Play from 48:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 213–215. 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
Time of day
morning evidence: t:48:16
People
  • man in dark suit, seated at desk, holding papers visible
  • man in light robe or towel, standing, older, balding visible
  • Mr. Holmes (named at t:48:13): man in dark coat, seated at desk, looking up, dark hair visible
Seen happening
  • A man is seated at a desk reviewing papers while another stands behind him. [frame:1]
  • A man in a robe appears briefly, looking upward. [frame:2]
  • A man in a dark coat looks up from his desk with a concerned expression. [frame:3]
Also said
“Mr. Holmes!” 48:13 · “Allow me to congratulate you on a brilliant bit of deduction.” 48:17
Seen
desk [frame:1], papers [frame:1], lamp [frame:3], bottles on shelf [frame:1], towel or robe [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: detection, morning aftermath, congratulation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting, static camera

A man sits at a desk while another stands behind him in a dim room; a third man in a robe appears briefly. The transcript includes a greeting to 'Mr. Holmes' and a comment that it is morning.

“Phew, nice fresh smell.” 48:02 · “At the pub after closing time.” 48:05 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 48:08 (passage 48:02–48:20); US record: No renewal found

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