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Dressed to Kill · Beat 3 · permalink

Jail

1:24–1:46 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 1:351:35

Play from 1:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 2–2. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, thin, wearing a prison uniform and cap, holding a small box visible, audible
  • younger man, wearing a prison uniform and cap, looking down at his hands visible
Also said
“That'll be sold at auction for the benefit of this delightful sanctuary.” 1:41 · “And I intend to serve them.” 1:46
Seen
prison uniforms, small box (possibly a musical box), prison caps
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: resigned, dryly humorous; themes: imprisonment, time served, craftsmanship as penance; style notes: medium close-up, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, static framing

Two men in prison uniforms are shown in a cell, one holding a small box; one speaks about serving time and making musical boxes for auction. No names are given in the dialogue.

“You may or may not be another Scotland Yard bloke.” 1:24 · “I still have two years, eight months and six days left.” 1:34 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 1:35 (passage 1:24–1:46); US record: No renewal found

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