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Dressed to Kill · Beat 72 · permalink

Private office

35:57–36:11 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 36:0436:04

Play from 35:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 29 · shots 161–161. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing a suit, seated in a chair visible
  • man standing, wearing a trench coat over a suit, hands in pockets visible
  • Davidson (named at t:36:08): man seated at a desk, wearing a suit, holding papers visible
Also said
“Articles of no intrinsic value and yet of such importance.” 36:02 · “Davidson was apprehended within 15 minutes committing the theft.” 36:08
Seen
bookshelves [frame:1], typewriter [frame:1], desk [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: crime, investigation, mystery; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

Three men are in a room with bookshelves and a typewriter; one seated, one standing behind him, one seated at a desk. A transcript line mentions Davidson being apprehended for theft.

“But you never told me anything about this house?” 35:57 · “You were away at the time.” 36:01 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 36:04 (passage 35:57–36:11); US record: No renewal found

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