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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 28 · permalink

Bar

22:55–23:00 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 22:5822:58

Play from 22:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 37–37. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing, medium build visible
  • man seated at table, wearing hat and coat visible
  • man seated, wearing hat, head down visible
  • man seated, back to camera, wearing light-colored hat visible
Seen
{'item': 'fedora hat', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'suit', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'wooden table', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'stool', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1], {'item': 'framed picture on wall', 'evidence': 'frame:1'} [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: urban nightlife, mystery, social gathering; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, noir aesthetic

A man in a suit and fedora stands in a dimly lit room with other seated men in hats. No dialogue or on-screen text is present 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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Frame from Bowery at Midnight (1942) at 22:58 (passage 22:55–23:00); US record: No renewal found

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