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He Walked by Night · Beat 106 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:07:05–1:07:26 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:07:101:07:10Frame at 1:07:161:07:16Frame at 1:07:221:07:22

Play from 1:07:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 64 · shots 183–185. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted figure in a vehicle, wearing a hat visible
  • person in light-colored shirt, leaning over another figure visible
  • prone figure on a surface, partially visible visible
  • silhouetted figure outdoors, wearing a hat visible
  • silhouetted figure outdoors, standing beside p4 visible
Seen happening
  • A person sits in the driver's seat of a vehicle at night. [frame:1]
  • A person leans over a prone figure in a dimly lit room. [frame:2]
  • Two silhouetted figures stand outdoors at night. [frame:3]
Seen
vehicle interior [frame:1], prone figure on surface [frame:2], outdoor structure with vertical siding [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and shadowy; themes: nocturnal activity, suspense, concealment; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, silhouetted figures, tight framing on actions

A person is seen inside a vehicle at night, then leaning over a prone figure in a dimly lit room, and finally two silhouetted figures are shown outdoors at night. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in these frames.

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 1:07:10 (passage 1:07:05–1:07:26); US record: No renewal found

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