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Bowery at Midnight · Beat 80 · permalink

Restaurant

59:07–59:09 Registered 1942

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 59:0859:08

Play from 59:07 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 113–113. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, holding a rifle visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing beside p1 visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing beside p2 visible
Seen
rifle [frame:1], tables and chairs [frame:1], newspaper on table [frame:1], wall-mounted picture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, crime, urban setting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, noir-style composition

Three men stand near a doorway in a room with tables and chairs; one holds a rifle. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in this beat.

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 59:08 (passage 59:07–59:09); US record: No renewal found

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