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Dressed to Kill · Beat 59 · permalink

Shop

30:50–31:35 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 31:1231:12

Play from 30:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 25 · shots 137–137. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
shop (shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman wearing a dark fur coat and hat, holding a musical box visible, audible
  • woman in a light-colored suit, standing beside p1 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a fur coat holds a musical box while talking to another woman. [frame:1]
Also said
“Oh, that's a musical box.” 31:20 · “Children always love them. Nessa's an exceptionally nice one. It plays many tunes.” 31:21
Seen
musical box [frame:1], fur coat [frame:1], hat [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite and transactional; themes: consumerism, gift-giving, childhood; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, studio lighting, period costume

A woman in a fur coat and hat holds a musical box while speaking with another woman in a shop. The transcript indicates they are discussing birthday gift options for a seven-year-old girl, including dolls, books, and musical boxes.

“It's lovely, dear. And only one pound.” 30:50 · “Good afternoon. Good afternoon. I'm looking for a birthday gift for a seven-year-old girl. What would you suggest?” 31:03 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 31:12 (passage 30:50–31:35); US record: No renewal found

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