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Dressed to Kill · Beat 61 · permalink

Shop

32:19–32:38 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:2332:23Frame at 32:3232:32

Play from 32:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 139–140. 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, frame:2
People
  • man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing a dark coat and hat visible
  • woman, wearing a fur coat and a tall hat, speaking visible, audible
  • woman, wearing a suit and blouse, standing near a table with objects visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a fur coat speaks to a man in a shop. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a suit stands alone in the shop, looking at items. [frame:2]
Also said
“Thank you anyway.” 32:27
Seen
fur coat, tall hat, suit and blouse, table with objects and a box, shelves with figurines and framed pictures
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite but detached; themes: shopping, social interaction, unspoken tension; style notes: medium close-up and medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera

A man and a woman are in a shop; the woman speaks while the man stands beside her. Another woman is seen alone in the same shop, looking at items on a table.

“How interesting.” 32:21 · “I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I have to look a bit further.” 32:25 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 32:23 (passage 32:19–32:38); US record: No renewal found

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