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Dressed to Kill · Beat 41 · permalink

Shop

22:41–23:23 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; 5 names 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 23:0223:02

Play from 22:41 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 15 · shots 93–93. 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 wearing fedora and overcoat, medium build, middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in light shirt and dark vest, balding, older visible
  • man in suit and tie, standing behind counter, older visible
  • man in patterned jacket, partially visible on left visible
  • man in suit, standing behind counter, older visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora speaks to others in a shop. [frame:1]
Also said
“This is very literally a matter of life and death.” 23:08 · “He gave me five pounds to tell him where the boxers had gone to his head. They had a sentimental value for him, sir. Hmm, expensive sentiment.” 23:19
Seen
musical boxes [t:22:44], counter [frame:1], framed pictures on wall [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and inquisitive; themes: mystery, crime, value of sentimental objects; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

A man in a fedora speaks to others in a shop while discussing musical boxes from Dartmoor Prison; one man mentions a customer who paid five pounds for information about the boxes' buyers.

“It used to have had three identical musical boxes all playing the same tune. Where'd they come from? Dartmoor Prison.” 22:44 · “the inmates manufacture them. They make all kinds of things, you know, pipe racks, waste paper baskets, musical boxes. Did you happen to notice” 22:52 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 23:02 (passage 22:41–23:23); US record: No renewal found

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