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Dressed to Kill · Beat 36 · permalink

Private office

20:00–20:17 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:0320:03Frame at 20:0820:08Frame at 20:1220:12Frame at 20:1620:16

Play from 20:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 82–85. 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, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4
People
  • older man, balding, wearing a dark suit and bow tie visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair in a headband, wearing a light dress and white fur stole visible, audible
  • man in uniform with cap, dark suit, standing near a desk visible
Seen happening
  • The man and woman stand together in a room with furniture and decor. [frame:1]
  • A uniformed man stands behind a desk with ornate objects. [frame:2]
  • The man and woman are close, smiling at each other, the woman wearing a fur stole. [frame:3]
  • The uniformed man remains standing behind the desk. [frame:4]
Also said
“You're not walking out on me, are you?” 20:08 · “My reputation.” 20:10
Seen
fur stole [frame:3], desk with ornate objects [frame:2, frame:4], uniform with cap [frame:2, frame:4], bow tie [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and flirtatious; themes: reputation, romantic tension, class distinction; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting, period costume and set design

A man and a woman interact in a room with ornate decor; a uniformed man stands near a desk with objects. The dialogue suggests tension over reputation and an attraction.

“Must you really?” 20:03 · “I'm afraid so.” 20:04 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 20:03 (passage 20:00–20:17); US record: No renewal found

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