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Dressed to Kill · Beat 166 · permalink

Private office

1:10:26–1:11:30 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; 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 1:10:581:10:58

Play from 1:10:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 65 · shots 339–339. 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 coat and bowler hat, medium build, middle-aged visible
  • man in light trench coat and dark hat, medium build, middle-aged visible
  • man in dark coat and patterned hat, holding a framed picture, medium build, middle-aged visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand in a room, one holding a framed picture. [frame:1]
Also said
“Will you see that these plates are returned to the Bank of England, Inspector? I still don't understand how you solved it, Mr. Hale. It's entirely due to Dr. Watson.” 71:06 · “He gave me the clue when he mentioned Dr. Samuel Johnson.” 71:06
Seen
framed picture [frame:1], coats and hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, conclusive; themes: justice, detection, unmasking; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set

Three men in coats and hats stand indoors, one holding a framed picture. A transcript line mentions returning plates to the Bank of England and credits Dr. Watson with solving a case.

“A brilliant antagonist.” 70:53 · “It's a pity her talents were so misdirected.” 70:55 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 1:10:58 (passage 1:10:26–1:11:30); US record: No renewal found

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