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Dressed to Kill · Beat 110 · permalink

Living room

53:41–54:01 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:4453:44Frame at 53:4753:47Frame at 53:5653:56Frame at 54:0054:00

Play from 53:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 240–244. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, mid-30s, wearing a light-colored suit with embellished collar and cuffs, dark hair styled up, seated on a striped sofa visible, audible
  • Mr. Holmes (named at t:53:52): man, 40s-50s, wearing a heavy overcoat and tie, seated in an armchair, thin build, expressive face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman is seated on a striped sofa, speaking. [frame:1]
  • The man is seated in an armchair, speaking. [frame:2]
  • The man continues speaking, leaning forward slightly. [frame:3]
  • The woman holds a cigarette case and looks toward the man. [frame:4]
Also said
“I don't understand, Mr. Holmes.” 53:52 · “Cigarette?” 54:00
Seen
striped sofa, armchair, cigarette case, overcoat, embellished suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and inquisitive; themes: mystery, interrogation, identity; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costume detail

A woman and a man are seated in a room, engaged in a dialogue where the man, referred to as Mr. Holmes, questions the woman about a visit to someone named Kilgore. The woman, holding a cigarette case, appears to be responding to his inquiries while seated on a striped sofa.

“Kilgore.” 53:42 · “I don't think I know anyone of that name.” 53:43 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 53:44 (passage 53:41–54:01); US record: No renewal found

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