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Dressed to Kill · Beat 96 · permalink

Private office

46:28–47:18 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 46:5346:53

Play from 46:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 205–205. 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
  • Mrs. Hudson (named at t:46:37): older woman with white hair in a bun, wearing dark dress visible, audible
  • Mr. Holmes (named at t:46:33): man in dark coat and fedora, standing near desk visible, audible
  • Watson (named at t:46:37): man in overcoat and hat, standing to right visible, audible
Also said
“Don't worry, Mrs. Hudson, don't worry. You had no way of knowing.” 47:04 · “Don't worry. Where on earth's the musical box?” 47:13
Seen
desk [frame:1], hat [frame:1], coat [frame:1], papers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: mystery, domestic intrusion, reassurance; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A woman and two men are in a room; one man asks about visitors while another stands near a desk. The woman mentions a veiled young lady and an old gentleman who visited, and the man reassures her she did nothing wrong.

“Who called while we were out, Mrs. Hudson? Just a young lady. The one who said you wanted her to wait for you. - And a nice-looking old gentleman with her. - Our friends again, Watson? Friends?” 46:37 · “Oh, I couldn't see a fish. It had a heavy black veil on.” 46:48 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 46:53 (passage 46:28–47:18); US record: No renewal found

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