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Dressed to Kill · Beat 13 · permalink

Shop

7:00–7:14 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:077:07

Play from 7:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 32–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a bowler hat and dark coat, seen from back visible
  • older man with balding head, wearing tuxedo and bow tie, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo speaks to a man in a bowler hat at a doorway. [frame:1]
Seen
bowler hat, tuxedo with bow tie, shop doorway with glass panels
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite and transactional; themes: commerce, social interaction, return visit; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s film, framing emphasizes the doorway interaction

A man in a bowler hat stands at a doorway while another man in a tuxedo speaks to him; the dialogue suggests a shop interaction with a promise to return Thursday. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be a shop entrance.

“And any time you're passing, dropping,” 7:02 · “We always have lovely things for sale. How can't you? Thank you. I'll be back Thursday.” 7:04 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 7:07 (passage 7:00–7:14); US record: No renewal found

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