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Dressed to Kill · Beat 33 · permalink

Shop

18:19–18:52 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 18:3618:36

Play from 18:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 14 · shots 78–78. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, older, wearing dark suit, balding visible, audible
  • Dr. Watson (named at t:18:45): woman, young, wearing dark dress with belt, hair in updo, holding small box visible, audible
Also said
“Only last night a burger broke in here. And with all these to choose from, went off with one very much like it. Really? Yes, I don't mind the loss of the box so much.” 18:37 · “But I do, is that there's crack on the scalp. But it makes you look so interesting. Don't you think so? Uh-huh. It's funny, that's what old Fatso says. Fatso? I mean, uh, Dr. Watson.” 18:45
Seen
small box [frame:1], display case [frame:1], belt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational, slightly humorous; themes: value of appearance, misidentification, humor through correction; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman stand in a shop, discussing a small box; the woman holds it while the man speaks about a burglary and a crack on the box. The woman mentions 'Dr. Watson' after referring to someone as 'Fatso.'

“As well as to the eye.” 18:26 · “Why, it looks just like a country cousin amid all this grandeur. No, no, no, no, you won't underestimate the country cousin.” 18:31 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 18:36 (passage 18:19–18:52); US record: No renewal found

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