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He Walked by Night · Beat 114 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:11:36–1:13:37 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:12:361:12:36

Play from 1:11:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 70 · shots 194–194. 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
People
  • man wearing dark hat and suit, smoking cigarette visible, audible
  • man wearing fedora and suit, driving visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit in a car at night; one smokes, the other drives. [frame:1]
Also said
“And he'll probably head down this main drain to where it comes out of the Rio Hondo. Now, you take your squad and cover that exit.” 73:04 · “Any sign of them? No. We searched every foot between here and the Rio Hondo outlet. Yes.” 73:28
Seen
car interior, cigarette, fedora, dark suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: manhunt, police procedure, urban night, radio coordination; style notes: black-and-white, tight two-shot in vehicle, high-contrast lighting, radio chatter creates off-screen tension

Two men in hats are inside a vehicle at night; one drives while the other smokes. Radio dispatches coordinate a manhunt near Venice and Garfield, referencing drains and tear gas.

“Why Venice and Garfield, Captain? It's the main intersection of the system. We can head him off that way.” 72:16 · “Gas mask tear gas urgent.” 72:36 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 1:12:36 (passage 1:11:36–1:13:37); US record: No renewal found

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