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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 20 · permalink

Restaurant

20:56–21:27 Registered 1942

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; 2 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 21:1221:12

Play from 20:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 29–29. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, blonde hair, wearing a white dress, standing visible, audible
  • man, wearing a dark coat and hat, seated visible, audible
Also said
“It might become infected.” 21:03 · “Let me clean and sandy.” 21:05
Seen
tables, chairs, wall-mounted light fixtures, framed pictures on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: care, reluctance, intimacy in confined space; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir, shallow depth of field

A woman in a white dress stands near a seated man in a dark coat and hat in a dimly lit room with tables; they exchange dialogue about tending to an injury. No names are spoken, and no clocks or windows establish time of day.

“You'd better let me take care of that for you.” 20:59 · “I can take care of it.” 21:02 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 21:12 (passage 20:56–21:27); US record: No renewal found

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