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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 4 · permalink

Bar

5:03–5:09 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 5:065:06

Play from 5:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 3–3. 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 tie, thin build, clean-shaven, standing with hand on hip visible
  • man in dark suit, fedora hat, holding a small object, facing p1 visible
Seen
metal beverage dispenser, glass tumblers, counter, fedora hat, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or transactional; themes: confrontation, urban nightlife; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir, shallow depth of field

Two men in suits stand at a counter with glassware and a large metal dispenser; one gestures toward the other. The setting appears to be an interior space with dim lighting and plain walls.

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 5:06 (passage 5:03–5:09); US record: No renewal found

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