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Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 0:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- Seen
- title card
- On screen
- ASTOR PICTURES CORP. Bela Lugosi BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT COPYRIGHT MCMLXLI BY MONOGRAM PICTURES CORPORATION
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: static title card with bold typography and a painted cityscape background; typical of 1940s film openings.
The opening title card displays the film's title, studio, and star. No characters or actions are visible in this beat.
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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- https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Bowery_at_Midnight/b1.png
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