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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 79 · permalink

Private office

59:02–59:07 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 59:0559:05

Play from 59:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 112–112. 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 wearing dark suit and hat, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • man interacts with a device on a desk [frame:1]
Seen
filing cabinets [frame:1], desk [frame:1], wall-mounted map or chart [frame:1], device on desk [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, secretive; themes: secrecy, workplace activity, nocturnal setting; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, high contrast black-and-white

A man in a dark suit and hat stands at a desk in a dimly lit room, interacting with a device. The setting appears to be an office or workspace with filing cabinets and a wall-mounted map or chart.

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 59:05 (passage 59:02–59:07); US record: No renewal found

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