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Dressed to Kill · Beat 154 · permalink

Library

1:07:52–1:08:20 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; 4 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 1:08:031:08:03Frame at 1:08:151:08:15Frame at 1:08:181:08:18

Play from 1:07:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 316–318. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
library (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform with cap, standing near window visible
  • woman in light-colored coat with fur collar and wide-brimmed hat visible
  • man in uniform with cap, gesturing toward bookshelves visible, audible
  • group of people in hats and coats, mostly seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • The guide gestures toward bookshelves while speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Standing in the corner is the secretary.” 68:14 · “On this table, Dr. Johnson's cat, Hodge, used to sleep while his master worked. A strange thing about this cat, ladies and gentlemen,” 68:20
Seen
bookshelves [frame:2], table [frame:1], window [frame:1], hats and coats [frame:1], uniform [frame:1, frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, educational; themes: literary history, guided tour, public presentation; style notes: medium shots of group and guide, close-up on listener; studio lighting, static camera

A tour guide addresses a group inside a library, pointing to bookshelves and mentioning Dr. Johnson's cat Hodge. A woman in a fur-trimmed coat and hat is shown listening, and a man in uniform stands nearby.

“And here we have the Gallet Library, in which Dr. Johnson wrote his famous dictionary.” 67:59 · “Step forward leaders and gentlemen, please step forward.” 68:10 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 1:08:03 (passage 1:07:52–1:08:20); US record: No renewal found

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