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Dressed to Kill · Beat 144 · permalink

Private office

1:03:15–1:03:27 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:03:171:03:17Frame at 1:03:241:03:24

Play from 1:03:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 298–299. 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, frame:2
People
  • man wearing a coat and hat, standing with arms crossed visible
  • man in a suit, balding, standing near bookshelves visible
  • Miss Williams (named at t:63:17): unknown audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a coat stands in a doorway with arms crossed. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands near bookshelves. [frame:2]
Seen
leather couch [frame:1], bookshelves [frame:2], doorway [frame:1], coat and hat [frame:1], suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or reassuring, depending on tone of voice; themes: professional setting, dialogue-driven interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static framing

A man in a coat stands in a doorway while another man in a suit is seen in a room with bookshelves; a line of dialogue addresses 'Miss Williams'. No names are visually confirmed, and no time of day or period is established.

“Don't you worry Miss Williams, we'll have this thing out in no time.” 63:17 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 1:03:17 (passage 1:03:15–1:03:27); US record: No renewal found

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