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Dressed to Kill · Beat 97 · permalink

Private office

47:18–47:30 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:1947:19Frame at 47:2347:23Frame at 47:2747:27Frame at 47:2947:29

Play from 47:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 206–210. 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, middle-aged, wearing a fedora, overcoat, and scarf; medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man looks surprised or confused. [frame:1]
  • The man reacts with wide eyes and raised eyebrows. [frame:2]
  • The man holds or looks at a jar while speaking. [frame:3]
  • The man stands near a suitcase or case, looking off-camera. [frame:4]
Also said
“Now, just a jar.” 47:25 · “Take the biscuits off the top.” 47:29
Seen
fedora hat, overcoat, scarf, jar, suitcase or case, lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, mysterious; themes: deception, hidden objects, mystery; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera

A man in a coat and hat stands in a dimly lit room, reacting to dialogue about an object in his hand. He is instructed to remove biscuits from a jar, which he holds or is near.

“They didn't get it.” 47:18 · “It's in your hand.” 47:22 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 47:19 (passage 47:18–47:30); US record: No renewal found

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