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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 53 · permalink

Sidewalk

36:28–36:33 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:3036:30

Play from 36:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 73–73. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a suit, tie, and fedora, mid-stride visible
  • woman in a patterned dress, holding a paper, mouth open in surprise visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, looking toward p1 visible
  • woman in dark dress, partially visible behind p2 visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit runs past a group of women on a sidewalk. [frame:1]
  • Women on the sidewalk react with surprise to the running man. [frame:1]
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], patterned dress [frame:1], paper held by woman [frame:1], storefront window [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: urban chaos, sudden movement, public reaction; style notes: medium shot, black and white, high contrast lighting, street-level framing

A man in a suit and hat runs past a group of women on a city sidewalk; the women react with surprise. The scene is outdoors during the day, with storefronts visible in the background.

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 36:30 (passage 36:28–36:33); US record: No renewal found

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