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Dressed to Kill · Beat 119 · permalink

Vehicle interior

56:42–56:55 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 56:4456:44Frame at 56:4656:46Frame at 56:5156:51

Play from 56:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 263–265. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in a driver's cap and dark coat, mustache, visible hands on steering wheel visible
  • man in a fedora and overcoat, holding a gun, smoking a cigarette visible
  • Colonel Kavanagh (named at t:56:49): man in a fedora and overcoat, smoking a cigarette, seated next to p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man's hands are shown manipulating a small object near a coat button. [frame:1]
  • A man in a driver's cap looks up while holding the steering wheel. [frame:2]
  • Two men sit in the back seat of a vehicle; one holds a gun and a cigarette. [frame:3]
Seen
gun, cigarette, steering wheel, driver's cap, fedora
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, conspiracy, danger in transit; style notes: close-ups on hands and faces, high-contrast lighting, confined framing within vehicle

A man in a driver's cap is at the wheel of a vehicle while two other men sit in the back, one holding a gun. One man thanks Colonel Kavanagh, who is addressed as Hamid in the same exchange.

“Be careful, Hamid. It's the brakes I find.” 56:42 · “Thank you, Colonel Kavanagh. It's very considerate of you.” 56:49 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 56:44 (passage 56:42–56:55); US record: No renewal found

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