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He Walked by Night · Beat 13 · permalink

Police station

12:38–13:51 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; 8 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 12:4212:42Frame at 12:5112:51Frame at 13:2413:24

Play from 12:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 25–27. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(police station, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:3
People
  • man in suit and tie, standing, holding papers visible, audible
  • man in fedora and suit, standing beside p1 visible, audible
  • man seated, wearing suit, looking at papers visible
  • man seated, wearing light shirt, at desk visible
  • man seated, wearing light shirt, at desk visible
  • man seated, wearing light shirt, at desk visible
  • man seated, wearing suit, in background visible
  • man seated, wearing suit, in background visible
Mentioned
  • The checking of suspects was thorough but revealed the shooter was not among them. [t:13:19]
  • Officer Rollins is in a coma at the hospital. [t:13:41]
Also said
“German Luger, fully loaded.” 13:01 · “But all the work was for nothing.” 13:19
Seen
German Luger [frame:2], papers [frame:2], desk [frame:3], chairs [frame:3], window blinds [frame:1], hats [frame:1, frame:2], suits [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3], chandeliers [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, procedural; themes: police investigation, criminal records, unidentified suspect, hospitalization of officer; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, medium shots, static framing

Police officers in a station review suspects and their criminal records, including weapons found on them. The real shooter remains unidentified, and Officer Rollins is in a coma at the hospital.

“Oh, some robbery suspects.” 12:41 · “He runs the outfit.” 12:47 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 12:42 (passage 12:38–13:51); US record: No renewal found

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