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Dressed to Kill · Beat 34 · permalink

Private office

18:52–19:12 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:0219:02

Play from 18:52 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 79–79. 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 tuxedo with bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair in a headscarf, wearing a light-colored dress visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman holds a musical box and speaks to the man. [frame:1]
Also said
“Yes, he seems to think I'm in some sort of...” 19:03 · “You heard me? You know, it's odd that you should be interested in that particular musical box. Odd? Why? Because Mr. Holmes is also interested in it.” 19:10
Seen
musical box [frame:1], shelves with clocks [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and slightly tense; themes: mystery, shared interest, coincidence; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

A man and a woman discuss Sherlock Holmes and a musical box in a room with shelves and clocks. The woman holds the musical box while speaking, and the man listens.

“He was here this evening with a friend, a Mr. Holmes.” 18:54 · “He's interested in my collection too. Sherlock Holmes?” 18:57 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 19:02 (passage 18:52–19:12); US record: No renewal found

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