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Dressed to Kill · Beat 122 · permalink

Garage

57:49–57:55 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 57:5157:51Frame at 57:5457:54

Play from 57:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 42 · shots 269–270. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garage (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cap and coat, bent over car engine visible
  • man in suit, tie, and fedora, holding gloves visible
  • man in overcoat and fedora, looking right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cap works under the hood of a car. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand beside the car, one in a suit and one in an overcoat. [frame:2]
Seen
car with open hood [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:2], overcoat [frame:2], suit and tie [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mechanical work, men in hats, car as prop; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting

A man in a cap works under the hood of a car while another man in a suit and a third in a fedora stand nearby. One of them says to start the motor.

“Start the motor.” 57:53 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 57:51 (passage 57:49–57:55); US record: No renewal found

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