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He Walked by Night · Beat 16 · permalink

Private office

15:05–15:07 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:0615:06

Play from 15:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 35–35. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-30s, medium build, wearing a light short-sleeved shirt and dark trousers visible
Seen
chandelier [frame:1], machine with curved handle [frame:1], doorway [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static framing

A man in a light shirt stands indoors near a machine with a curved handle. The room has a chandelier and a doorway visible in the background.

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 15:06 (passage 15:05–15:07); US record: No renewal found

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