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Dressed to Kill · Beat 129 · permalink

Garage

59:06–59:15 Registered 1946

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

Frame at 59:1059:10

Play from 59:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 47 · shots 279–279. 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
  • wearing a long dark coat, viewed from behind, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A person in a long coat walks through a garage-like space. [frame:1]
Seen
long coat [frame:1], vehicles (possibly motorcycles or scooters) [frame:1], railing or window frame in foreground [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, urban setting, solitude; style notes: high-angle shot through foreground obstruction, high contrast lighting, noir aesthetic

A person in a long coat walks through a dimly lit garage or workshop with vehicles visible in the background. The scene is shot from an elevated angle through a window or railing, showing the person moving away from the camera.

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 59:10 (passage 59:06–59:15); US record: No renewal found

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