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Dressed to Kill · Beat 46 · permalink

Living room

24:50–25:16 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; 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 24:5324:53Frame at 24:5824:58Frame at 25:0625:06Frame at 25:1425:14

Play from 24:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 17 · shots 101–104. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man, mid-30s to 50s, wearing a fedora and overcoat, average build visible, audible
  • woman, 40s to 60s, wearing a dark dress and hat, holding a cigarette visible, audible
  • Mrs. Kilgore (named at t:24:55): man, mid-30s to 50s, wearing a fedora and overcoat, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand in a parlor talking. [frame:1]
  • One man turns and walks down a staircase. [frame:2]
  • The man in the fedora stands alone in the parlor. [frame:3]
  • The man exits onto a street and approaches a vintage car. [frame:4]
Also said
“Funny old girl home.” 25:00 · “I” 25:11
Seen
vintage car [frame:4], staircase with metal railing [frame:2], cigarette [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1, frame:3], overcoats [frame:1, frame:3], armchair [frame:3], lamp [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and hurried; themes: departure, social rules, domestic space; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, high contrast lighting

Three people converse in a parlor; one departs, walks down stairs, and exits to a street where a vintage car waits. The dialogue references smoking and a Mrs. Kilgore.

“Well, I've got to be off. It's too late in the parlour. And no smoking either.” 24:50 · “Mrs. Kilgore says it smells up the out.” 24:55 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 24:53 (passage 24:50–25:16); US record: No renewal found

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