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Dressed to Kill · Beat 127 · permalink

Garage

58:35–59:04 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 58:3758:37Frame at 58:4358:43Frame at 58:5558:55

Play from 58:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 45 · shots 275–277. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, suspended by handcuffs from above visible
  • Mr. Holmes (named at t:58:38): man in patterned suit and tie, looking up visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and cap, standing beside p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man is suspended by handcuffs from a beam. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit looks upward. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand beside a car and talk. [frame:3]
Also said
“to have anything go wrong through so simple an oversight.” 58:57
Seen
car [frame:2, frame:3], handcuffs [frame:1], beam [frame:1], window [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, suspenseful; themes: suspense, mistake, confinement; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots, static framing

Two men are in a garage with a car; one is suspended by handcuffs from a beam, the other stands below looking up. A third man joins them, and they speak about fuel and oversight.

“You find yourself like Mohammed's coffin, Mr. Holmes. Suspended between heaven and earth.” 58:38 · “Plenty of fuel in the tank.” 58:52 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 58:37 (passage 58:35–59:04); US record: No renewal found

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