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Dressed to Kill · Beat 60 · permalink

Shop

31:35–32:19 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; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:5731:57

Play from 31:35 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 138–138. 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 in a suit, dark hair, mid-adult visible, audible
  • person in a dark hat and fur coat, face partially visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a suit speaks with a person in a fur coat inside a shop. [frame:1]
  • The woman gestures toward objects on a counter while speaking. [frame:1]
Also said
“Do you happen to know who the purchaser was?” 32:05 · “He left his card just in case anyone should inquire for him.” 32:10
Seen
wooden item [t:31:57], card [t:32:10], shelves with objects [frame:1], counter [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious and transactional; themes: inquiry, commerce, mystery of identity; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, black-and-white, static framing, mid-1940s costume design

A woman in a suit speaks with a person in a fur coat inside a shop; the transcript suggests they are discussing a sold wooden item and a purchaser who left a card. No names are spoken, and the setting is an interior shop with shelves of objects.

“Oh, nice. Are you sure that he's over here? I'm sorry. It's rather hard to find, you know, at the entire allotment.” 31:43 · “I did have one other, but I sold it earlier this afternoon. But it was only a plain wooden one. It wouldn't have been a very nice gift for a child. Really?” 31:57 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 31:57 (passage 31:35–32:19); US record: No renewal found

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