Private office
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 23:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 38–38. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Frankie Muir (named at t:23:12): man in dark suit and tie, standing upright visible, audible
- man in dark coat and fedora, younger, standing with hands in pockets visible, audible
- man in uniform, identified as sergeant audible, mentioned
- Also said
- “You'd better not do anything to upset this baby.” 23:23 · “Good evening, Sergeant.” 23:50
- Seen
- desk lamp, wooden cabinet, chair
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: crime, suspicion, authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium two-shot, high contrast lighting, static camera
Two men converse in a dimly lit interior; one is identified as Frankie Muir and warns the other not to upset a baby. A sergeant arrives, mentioning a dangerous killer and orders to search Bowery locations.
“Isn't Frankie Muir?” 23:12 · “Too bad you recognize me, mister.” 23:15 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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