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36:17–36:19 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 36:1836:18

Play from 36:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 68–68. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark suit, light-colored fedora with dark band, open-necked shirt, holding a cane visible
  • man wearing a dark suit, dark fedora, white pocket square, holding a pistol visible
Seen
cane [frame:1], pistol [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, crime, dualism; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, high contrast black and white, two-shot composition

Two men in suits and hats stand side by side, one holding a cane and the other holding a pistol. The setting appears to be a studio set with a plain backdrop, suggesting an indoor scene.

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 36:18 (passage 36:17–36:19); US record: No renewal found

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