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Dressed to Kill · Beat 58 · permalink

Street

29:59–30:50 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; 4 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 30:0130:01Frame at 30:1930:19Frame at 30:3930:39Frame at 30:4530:45

Play from 29:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 132–136. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman carrying a parcel, wearing a light-colored hat and coat visible
  • Hamid (named at t:30:12): man in a car, wearing a flat cap and coat, holding steering wheel visible, audible
  • man in a top hat, visible on vehicle roof visible
  • person inside vehicle, partially visible through window visible
Seen happening
  • A woman with a parcel walks near a building entrance. [frame:1]
  • A person is seen inside a vehicle, looking out. [frame:2]
  • A man in a flat cap drives a vehicle past a storefront with a striped awning. [frame:3]
  • A man in a top hat stands on the roof of a vehicle while another man drives. [frame:4]
Also said
“Follow her, Hamid.” 30:12 · “I'm going to go.” 30:19
Seen
parcel [frame:1], vehicle with roof rack [frame:1], storefront with striped awning [frame:3], taxi with license plate 'NY 4729' [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: surveillance, pursuit, urban setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots from vehicle perspective, high-contrast lighting

A person carrying a parcel is seen near a building entrance while others observe from a vehicle. A man in a car is instructed to follow her, and another man in a top hat is visible on the vehicle's roof.

“A girl with a parcel in her hands, that's her. Are you sure that's the girl?” 30:03 · “She fits perfectly the auctioneer's description.” 30:09 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 30:01 (passage 29:59–30:50); US record: No renewal found

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