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Dressed to Kill · Beat 17 · permalink

Vehicle interior

7:37–8:31 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 8:048:04

Play from 7:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 9 · shots 36–36. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man with mustache, wearing dark suit and cap, visible at wheel visible
  • Colonel Cavanaugh (named at t:7:42): man with mustache, wearing dark suit and bow tie, seated beside driver visible, audible
Also said
“The musical boxes, they've been sold.” 7:51 · “You can't hold me responsible for that.” 8:02
Seen
steering wheel, car interior
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: blame, denial, material loss; style notes: tight two-shot, high-contrast lighting, confined framing within vehicle

Two men are seated in a vehicle interior; one speaks about musical boxes being sold and denies responsibility. The dialogue references Colonel Cavanaugh and a delayed message.

“Reaching for a star, you fool.” 7:39 · “Yet a fool may touch a star, Colonel Cavanaugh.” 7:42 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 8:04 (passage 7:37–8:31); US record: No renewal found

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