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He Walked by Night · Beat 105 · permalink

Private office

1:05:34–1:07:05 Registered 1948

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; 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 1:06:191:06:19

Play from 1:05:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 182–182. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • seen from behind, wearing a dark jacket or coat, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands in a dim room with a lamp visible. [frame:1]
Also said
“Go around and block the site entrance.” 66:07 · “Keep your lights off.” 66:09
Seen
lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: urgency, covert operation; style notes: low-key lighting, backlit figure, static medium shot

A person is seen from behind in a dimly lit interior, with a lamp visible; dialogue indicates urgency and coordination of a blocking maneuver. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“Hey.” 65:47 · “They're out on time.” 66:04 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 He Walked by Night (1948) at 1:06:19 (passage 1:05:34–1:07:05); US record: No renewal found

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