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Dressed to Kill · Beat 104 · permalink

Private office

49:51–50:13 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 49:5549:55Frame at 50:0150:01Frame at 50:0850:08Frame at 50:1150:11

Play from 49:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 225–229. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Fiskey E. (named at t:49:51): man in dark suit and tie, mid-adult, thin build, dark hair combed back visible, audible
  • O'Beaton (named at t:50:10): older man with white hair, wearing a light robe or dressing gown, seated at a desk visible, audible
Also said
“Your piano lessons were not in vain, old fellow. You've solved it. Thank you.” 50:04 · “Thanks, O'Beaton. Hold this.” 50:10
Seen
desk lamp, bookshelves, small black figurine on desk, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but resolved; themes: puzzle-solving, collaboration, gratitude; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

Two men are in a room with bookshelves and a desk; one speaks while the other listens and reacts. The dialogue includes references to keys and piano lessons, ending with thanks and a request to hold something.

“Fiskey E.” 49:51 · “S-H-E-L-F?” 50:00 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 49:55 (passage 49:51–50:13); US record: No renewal found

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