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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 11 · permalink

Dining room

13:18–13:52 Registered 1942

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:2313:23Frame at 13:3913:39

Play from 13:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 10–11. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark tuxedo, bow tie, short hair, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in patterned dress, dark hair styled up, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man and woman stand near a table set with glasses and plates. [frame:1]
  • Man embraces woman; she holds a bouquet. [frame:2]
Also said
“They must have cost an awful lot.” 13:42 · “Nothing is too good for you.” 13:46
Seen
table set with glasses and plates [frame:1], bouquet of flowers [frame:2], window blinds [frame:1], patterned curtain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: romantic, intimate; themes: romance, gift-giving, affection; style notes: medium close-up shots, soft lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man and a woman stand near a set table in a dimly lit room; he presents her with flowers, and they embrace. The woman comments on the cost of the gift, and he replies that nothing is too good for her.

“You finished your book?” 13:22 · “They are beautiful. Just like you, my dear.” 13:36 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 Bowery at Midnight (1942) at 13:23 (passage 13:18–13:52); US record: No renewal found

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