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Dressed to Kill · Beat 44 · permalink

Sidewalk

23:52–24:17 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; 2 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 24:0424:04

Play from 23:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 98–98. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark fedora and a plaid overcoat visible
  • man wearing a patterned hat and a dark coat, holding a small object visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand at a doorway; one looks through a window. [frame:1]
Also said
“I hope that's the explanation.” 24:07 · “I'll have a look through this window.” 24:10
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], plaid overcoat [frame:1], patterned hat [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], small object held by p2 [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, investigation, suspicion; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, period costume

Two men in coats and hats stand at a doorway; one peers through a window. The transcript indicates they are discussing musical boxes and suspecting murder, with one saying he will look through the window.

“But hang it all, Holmes, how do you know those other two musical boxes are of any importance? I don't, but I certainly have no intention of waiting until the owners are murdered to find out.” 23:56 · “No one at home.” 24:06 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 24:04 (passage 23:52–24:17); US record: No renewal found

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