Private office

43:56–43:58 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

43:57

Play from 43:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 195–195. 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, wearing fedora, plaid overcoat, scarf, and bow tie visible

Seen

lit candle [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], plaid overcoat [frame:1], diamond-patterned window [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: mystery, noir; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, noir-style composition

A man in a fedora and plaid overcoat stands indoors holding a lit candle. The background includes a diamond-patterned window and a framed picture on the wall.

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 43:57 (passage 43:56–43:58); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/dressed_to_kill/b90.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/dressed_to_kill/b90"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/dressed_to_kill/0195.webp" alt="Frame from Dressed to Kill (1946) at 43:57 (passage 43:56–43:58); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>Dressed to Kill (1946), 43:56–43:58. Internet Archive copy dressed_to_kill; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "Dressed to Kill (1946), 43:56–43:58", https://publicreel.org/moment/dressed_to_kill/b90, from Internet Archive item dressed_to_kill, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Private office

Evidence and details

The record

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