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Dressed to Kill · Beat 157 · permalink

Private office

1:09:05–1:09:41 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:09:231:09:23

Play from 1:09:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 326–326. 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
People
  • man wearing a dark bowler hat and a textured overcoat, seen from the back and side visible
  • man wearing a dark peaked cap and suit, facing p1, profile visible visible
Also said
“Good night.” 69:33 · “The Bank of England plates.” 69:41
Seen
glass-paneled door, bowler hat, peaked cap, overcoat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: security, authority, transfer of responsibility; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing emphasizing dialogue over action

Two men stand near a glass-paneled door in an interior setting; one is handing over keys while the other listens. The transcript includes references to keys, a shelf, and the Bank of England plates, suggesting a transfer or instruction related to secure items.

“Your keys.” 69:08 · “Third shelf up.” 69:25 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 1:09:23 (passage 1:09:05–1:09:41); US record: No renewal found

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