Street
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; 6 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 36:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 75–79. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in tuxedo, glasses, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
- woman in light dress, blonde, holding umbrella, middle-aged visible, audible
- crowd of women in 1940s dresses and hats, some visible visible
- man in police uniform, partially visible visible
- Jim (named at t:36:53): man named Jim, mentioned only mentioned
- George (named at t:36:53): man named George, mentioned only mentioned
- Also said
- “Help! I've been robbed!” 36:51 · “You stay here, Jim. George, you come with me.” 36:53
- Seen
- umbrella [frame:4], police uniform [frame:4], tuxedo [frame:2], 1940s dresses and hats [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent; themes: public disorder, authority response, urban crime; style notes: medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, staged crowd scene, static camera
A crowd gathers outside as a man in a tuxedo calls for people to move back; police are summoned and a woman cries she has been robbed. A man named Jim is told to stay while George is directed to accompany someone.
“Back up, people! Back up!” 36:40 · “Come on, move back. Move back. Keep those people back over there.” 36:42 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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