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Dressed to Kill · Beat 42 · permalink

Shop

23:23–23:50 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 23:2723:27Frame at 23:3823:38Frame at 23:4723:47

Play from 23:23 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 94–96. 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 in bowler hat and overcoat, seen from side and back visible
  • Mr. Cradbury (named at t:23:41): older man in vest and bow tie, standing behind counter visible, audible
  • man in fedora and coat, facing camera in frame 2 visible
  • man in suit, partially visible on right visible
  • man in vest and tie, standing behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • Men stand around a table of decorative objects in a shop. [frame:1]
  • A man in a fedora speaks to Mr. Cradbury. [frame:2]
  • A man in a bowler hat turns away from the group. [frame:3]
Also said
“I told him the young lady usually come back on Thursday. He said he'd come back on Thursday. Now, that's tomorrow.” 23:36 · “Thank you, Mr. Cradbury. You've been very helpful. Thank you. Come along, Watson. Where are we going now, Holmes? We're going home by Mr. Kilgore. The man who bought the third box.” 23:41
Seen
decorative objects on table [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:2], overcoat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: inquisitive and procedural; themes: investigation, mystery, dialogue-driven; style notes: medium shots, static camera, studio lighting, period costumes

A group of men are gathered in a shop filled with decorative objects, discussing a man who inquired about a young lady. One man, identified as Mr. Cradbury, is thanked before the group prepares to leave, mentioning Holmes and Watson.

“Can you describe him? Tall, distinguished looking and he had...” 23:25 · “Right here and the moustache. Oh, he's quite a gentleman, sir. Now, what was his reaction when you were unable to supply him” 23:28 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 23:27 (passage 23:23–23:50); US record: No renewal found

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