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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 60 · permalink

Private office

40:31–40:34 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 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 40:3240:32

Play from 40:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 88–88. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying on table, wearing light-colored shirt and dark pants visible
  • man seated at table, wearing dark suit and fedora, holding a cigarette visible
  • man seated at table, wearing light shirt and dark hat, looking down visible
  • man standing near doorway, wearing dark suit and glasses visible
Seen
table, chairs, doorway, picture frame on wall, metal pitcher, papers on table
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, suspense; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, staged composition

A man lies on a table in a room while three other men sit or stand nearby. The setting appears to be an interior space with a table, chairs, and a doorway.

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 40:32 (passage 40:31–40:34); US record: No renewal found

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