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Dressed to Kill · Beat 53 · permalink

Living room

27:30–28:27 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 27:3327:33Frame at 28:0128:01

Play from 27:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 23 · shots 118–119. 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
  • young woman, blonde hair, wearing a plaid dress with white collar and cuffs visible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a dark coat and patterned scarf tied at the neck visible
  • auctioneer, not visible audible
Also said
“What a beautiful ornament for your mantelpiece. Or you could use it as a centerpiece on the dining room table. Now, will somebody starve me for 10 pounds?” 28:15 · “Certainly, Tom.” 28:25
Seen
plaid dress with white collar [frame:1], dark coat with patterned scarf [frame:2], lamp on side table [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: light, conversational; themes: auction, domestic setting, social interaction; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing

A woman in a plaid dress is seated indoors, reacting to an auctioneer's call for bids on a Dresden China figurine. Another woman, wearing a dark coat and scarf, is also seated and appears to be listening or responding to the auction.

“Now, ladies and gentlemen, how much am I offered for this beautiful lace Dresden China figurine?” 28:03 · “A lady of the French court.” 28:09 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 27:33 (passage 27:30–28:27); US record: No renewal found

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