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Dressed to Kill · Beat 80 · permalink

Private office

38:43–39:03 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 38:5138:51Frame at 39:0139:01

Play from 38:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 176–177. 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
  • man in a patterned overcoat, dark tie, holding a small object visible
  • bald man in dark suit and tie, seated at a desk visible
Seen
{'item': 'small object held by p1', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'bust on pedestal', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'desk with papers', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'bookshelves', 'frame': 1}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: confrontation, office setting; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a coat holds a small object while seated; another man in a suit sits at a desk. The setting appears to be an office with bookshelves and a bust visible.

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 38:51 (passage 38:43–39:03); US record: No renewal found

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