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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 56 · permalink

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36:56–39:09 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 38:0238:02

Play from 36:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 80–80. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(shop, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored suit, neat hair, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and hat, disheveled shirt, thin build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand facing each other in a shop, one asking to try on a suit from the window. [frame:1]
Also said
“Can you make me look like a tramp?” 38:37 · “- Thank you, Mom. - You're welcome.” 39:07
Seen
suit jacket [frame:1], hat [frame:1], window display [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: urban crime, disguise, economic hardship; style notes: low-key lighting, medium two-shot, period costume, static framing

Two men converse in a dimly lit interior, one in a suit and the other in a disheveled coat and hat; dialogue suggests pressure from a chief and a request to appear as a tramp. No named individuals are identified in the dialogue or frames.

“Hurry, Clark. I'm getting robbed.” 36:57 · “I want the Bowery search from one end to the other.” 37:27 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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Frame from Bowery at Midnight (1942) at 38:02 (passage 36:56–39:09); US record: No renewal found

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