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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 27 · permalink

Street

22:50–22:55 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote 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 22:5322:53

Play from 22:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 36–36. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, visible in shadow visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing slightly behind p1 visible
Seen
brick wall, dark coats and hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nocturnal and tense; themes: urban crime, police procedure; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, grainy black-and-white film

Two men in dark coats and hats stand outside a building at night; one is instructed to check a pool hall. The scene is dimly lit and appears to be an exterior urban setting.

“Bill, you and Joe, take a look in the pool hall.” 22:53 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 22:53 (passage 22:50–22:55); US record: No renewal found

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