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Dressed to Kill · Beat 149 · permalink

Private office

1:04:39–1:05:09 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 1:04:541:04:54

Play from 1:04:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 56 · shots 306–306. 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
  • man in dark suit, standing, balding visible
  • woman in dark hat and coat, standing visible
  • Holmes (named at t:65:03): man in suit, seated at desk, writing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man seated at a desk writes while two others stand nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“I've been trying to get you to the club, the Scotland Yard, all over London.” 65:05
Seen
desk [frame:1], pen [frame:1], papers [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: investigation, mystery, urgency; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static composition

Three people are in a room with one seated at a desk writing, while two others stand nearby. One standing person asks Holmes where he has been, and another questions whether he has been somewhere.

“You haven't been there, you said?” 65:01 · “Holmes, where on earth have you been?” 65:03 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 1:04:54 (passage 1:04:39–1:05:09); US record: No renewal found

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