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He Walked by Night · Beat 14 · permalink

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13:51–14:32 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 14:1114:11Frame at 14:3114:31

Play from 13:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 28–29. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other)
People
  • man with shaving cream on face, short dark hair, regular features, possibly in his late 20s visible
Seen happening
  • A man is shown in close-up with shaving cream on his face. [frame:1]
  • The man’s face is still visible, with shaving cream on his cheek and jaw. [frame:2]
Also said
“26 or 7.” 14:20 · “Brown hair.” 14:27
Seen
shaving cream [frame:1], shaving cream [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, suspenseful; themes: suspense, criminal description, personal grooming under pressure; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film stock

A man is shown in close-up with shaving cream on his face; transcript lines describe a physical description of a suspect. No named individuals appear, and the setting is not visually identifiable.

“Oh, my God.” 14:08 · “A white male American.” 14:18 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 14:11 (passage 13:51–14:32); US record: No renewal found

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