Public Reel

Bowery at Midnight · Beat 81 · permalink

Warehouse

59:09–59:45 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 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 59:2759:27Frame at 59:4559:45

Play from 59:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 55 · shots 114–115. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
warehouse (warehouse, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, medium build, visible in profile visible
  • man in dark suit, balding, seated, visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat gestures toward a window or doorway. [frame:1]
  • The same man stands near a barrel, holding something small in his hand. [frame:2]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 59:30 · “I'm going to go.” 59:40
Seen
wooden barrel, window with light, rough stone or brick wall, dark coat and hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: escape, concealment, urgency; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, medium shots, static camera

Two men are in a dim interior; one speaks about leaving while the other appears to gesture toward a window or doorway. The setting includes wooden barrels and rough walls, suggesting a cellar or storage area.

“Come on.” 59:23 · “Let's hide.” 59:28 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from Bowery at Midnight (1942) at 59:27 (passage 59:09–59:45); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/Bowery_at_Midnight/b81.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite