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Dressed to Kill · Beat 73 · permalink

Private office

36:11–36:41 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 36:2636:26

Play from 36:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 29 · shots 162–162. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, white hair, wearing a suit, seated visible, audible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing a trench coat and tie, standing visible
  • Dr. Watson (named at t:36:16): middle-aged man, dark hair, wearing a suit and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
Also said
“Let's not go into that now, old fellow, shall we?” 36:24 · “The articles he stole were nothing less and a complete duplicate set of plates for printing five-pound notes.” 36:36
Seen
bookshelves, desk, typewriter, trench coat, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: confidentiality, theft, institutional trust; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, bookshelf background suggests intellectual or official setting

Three men are in a room with bookshelves; one seated man speaks while another stands behind him and a third sits facing them. The transcript reveals a discussion about stolen banknote plates and a confidentiality warning.

“Before going further, Dr. Watson. I must inform you that this matter is not to be mentioned outside of this room.” 36:18 · “Of course not. Do I look like a man who gossip?” 36:18 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 36:26 (passage 36:11–36:41); US record: No renewal found

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