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Dressed to Kill · Beat 140 · permalink

Private office

1:02:28–1:02:53 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 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 1:02:411:02:41

Play from 1:02:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 293–293. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Dr. Watson (named at t:62:31): older man, wearing a suit and tie, seen from the side visible, audible
  • woman wearing a dark hat and coat, seen in profile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman turns her head sharply toward something off-screen. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, God!” 62:45 · “Get through, get through the fire brigade, quickly.” 62:47
Seen
hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: sudden alarm; themes: emergency response, emotional distress, interpersonal reassurance; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman are in an interior room; the woman reacts with alarm to something off-screen, prompting a call for the fire brigade. The man comforts her before the emergency is announced.

“There you are, my dear. Thank you, Dr. Watson. No, no, no, you're not to cry anymore. You must pull yourself together.” 62:31 · “I feel much better already knowing that you're going to help me. Oh, Dr. Watson, look! Good heavens!” 62:31 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 1:02:41 (passage 1:02:28–1:02:53); US record: No renewal found

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