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Dressed to Kill · Beat 141 · permalink

Private office

1:02:53–1:02:59 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:551:02:55Frame at 1:02:571:02:57

Play from 1:02:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 294–295. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • woman wearing a dark hat with feather, fur-trimmed coat, holding an object visible
  • man in suit, balding, gesturing with right hand visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a hat and fur coat holds an object and speaks. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit gestures near a desk with a radio and a jar. [frame:2]
Seen
hat with feather [frame:1], fur-trimmed coat [frame:1], desk [frame:2], radio [frame:2], jar [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or urgent; themes: absence of safety equipment, dialogue-driven interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up shots, studio lighting, static framing

A woman in a hat and fur-trimmed coat speaks while holding an object; a man in a suit gestures near a desk with a radio and a jar. The transcript includes a question about a fire extinguisher and a statement about not having one again.

“Haven't you a fire extinguisher?” 62:54 · “By going, we haven't again.” 62:54 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 1:02:55 (passage 1:02:53–1:02:59); US record: No renewal found

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