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Dressed to Kill · Beat 25 · permalink

Private office

13:07–13:29 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:0813:08Frame at 13:1913:19

Play from 13:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 63–64. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, smiling in frame 1, holding a rabbit in frame 2 visible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing a suit, smiling, holding a box in frame 1 visible
Seen happening
  • A younger man hands a box to an older man. [frame:1]
  • The older man holds a small rabbit with white ears. [frame:2]
Also said
“Stupid thing.” 13:26 · “Singing rabbit.” 13:27
Seen
box, rabbit, lamp, shelf with glassware
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light-hearted; themes: comedy, magic trick, misdirection; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing

Two men interact in an interior setting; one hands an object to the other, who later holds a small rabbit. The transcript includes whistling and brief phrases like 'No room' and 'Stupid thing.'

“No room.” 13:11 · “This way.” 13:15 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 13:08 (passage 13:07–13:29); US record: No renewal found

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