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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 78 · permalink

Bar

58:56–59:02 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 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 58:5958:59

Play from 58:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 111–111. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, seen from behind visible
  • man wearing a hat and dark coat, standing near doorway visible
  • man seated at table, balding, wearing dark coat visible
  • unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • Several men in hats and coats stand or move toward a doorway in a dim room with tables. [frame:1]
Seen
tables [frame:1], chairs [frame:1], checkers board [frame:1], hats [frame:1], coats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, exclusion; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot from behind, static framing

A group of men in hats and coats are seen from behind in a dimly lit room with tables and chairs; one man sits at a table while others stand or move toward a doorway. A voice says 'I'll stay' and tells others to 'Stay out of here.'

“- I'll stay.” 58:56 · “- All right, you boys. Stay out of here.” 58:56 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 58:59 (passage 58:56–59:02); US record: No renewal found

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