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Dressed to Kill · Beat 49 · permalink

Living room

25:34–25:54 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:3925:39Frame at 25:4525:45Frame at 25:4925:49Frame at 25:5225:52

Play from 25:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 107–111. 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
People
  • older man, wearing a plaid overcoat and a dark hat, seated on a sofa visible
  • Holmes (named at t:25:34): man wearing a dark overcoat and fedora, standing then walking toward a door visible
Seen happening
  • Holmes walks toward a door. [frame:4]
Also said
“Stolen jewelry, Postler.” 25:40 · “What's this is, steam in the water pipes?” 25:48
Seen
sofa [frame:1], coffee table [frame:1], bookshelf [frame:1], door [frame:4], hat [frame:1], overcoat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, detection, hidden objects; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir

Two men are in a living room; one seated, one standing. The standing man walks toward a door after a conversation about stolen jewelry and steam in pipes.

“You know, Holmes, I've been thinking.” 25:34 · “There must have been something hidden in that box of old stinkers.” 25:37 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 25:39 (passage 25:34–25:54); US record: No renewal found

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