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Dressed to Kill · Beat 108 · permalink

Shop

51:45–52:46 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 52:1552:15

Play from 51:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 35 · shots 236–236. 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
  • Mr. Holmes (named at t:52:31): man wearing a hat and coat, seated at a counter visible, audible
  • Mrs. Hilda Courtney (named at t:52:28): woman in dark jacket and light collar, standing at counter visible, audible
Also said
“Mrs. Hilda Courtney.” 52:28 · “Thank you. Thank you very much. You've been most helpful. It is a pleasure to have been of service, Mr. Holmes.” 52:31
Seen
tobacco jar [frame:1], counter [frame:1]
On screen
PETERSON'S Selected TOBACCOS
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and methodical; themes: investigation, identity, specialized knowledge; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white, studio lighting, centered composition with tobacco jar as focal point

A man and a woman speak across a counter with a large tobacco jar between them; the man identifies a cigarette blend he made for three specific customers, including himself and two others. The woman thanks him, addressing him as Mr. Holmes.

“In the meantime, I intend to follow up a little clue concerning a cigarette.” 51:45 · “I have made up this special blend for only three customers.” 52:00 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 52:15 (passage 51:45–52:46); US record: No renewal found

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