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He Walked by Night · Beat 113 · permalink

Street

1:11:02–1:11:36 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 1:11:191:11:19

Play from 1:11:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 193–193. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Marty (named at t:71:15): man in hat and coat, visible in group visible, audible
  • man in hat and coat, visible in group visible, audible
  • man in hat and coat, visible in group visible
  • man in hat and coat, visible in group visible
  • man in hat and coat, visible in group visible
Also said
“Jones, Miller, you stay here in case he comes up for air. I want a man at every other drain entrance along this line. You've got to come up somewhere. Come on, Marty. You're driving.” 71:15
Seen
hats [frame:1], coats [frame:1], streetlight [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: pursuit, urban infrastructure, team coordination; style notes: low-key lighting, group framing, night setting, noir aesthetic

A group of men in hats and coats gather at night, one giving orders about storm drains and assigning others to posts. One man is told to drive, and a meeting point is named as Venice and Garfield.

“I'm going to go.” 71:02 · “I want a map covering the storm drain system in this area. Get it? Meet me at Venice and Garfield.” 71:08 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 1:11:19 (passage 1:11:02–1:11:36); US record: No renewal found

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