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1:46–2:18 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 2:022:02

Play from 1:46 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 4 · shots 3–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a coat and hat, holding papers, seen in profile visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a room holding papers, looking toward the right. [frame:1]
Also said
“Now these beautiful little musical boxes only arrived this morning and I didn't intend to put them on the auction block until later but I'm going to sell them now.” 2:08 · “So good friends, as our old pal Mark Anthony used to say.” 2:15
Seen
potted plants [frame:1], furniture (table, chair) [frame:1], curtains [frame:1], woman's coat and hat [frame:1], papers in woman's hand [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, transactional; themes: auction, performance, formal address; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, period costume

A woman stands in a room with plants and furniture while auctioneer-style dialogue plays. The transcript mentions musical boxes being sold at auction, referencing Mark Anthony.

“And I intend to serve them.” 1:46 · “Move along.” 1:53 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 2:02 (passage 1:46–2:18); US record: No renewal found

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