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He Walked by Night · Beat 22 · permalink

Private office

16:22–16:31 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 16:2616:26

Play from 16:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 11 · shots 41–41. 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 wearing a fedora and suit, standing visible
  • man in suit and glasses, standing visible
  • Marty (named at t:16:23): man in dark shirt, leaning over a desk visible, audible
Seen
hammer [frame:1], desk [frame:1], fedora [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, request under pressure; style notes: black and white, medium shot, high contrast lighting

Three men are in a dimly lit interior space; one asks another named Marty for a hammer. The scene is shot in black and white with medium framing.

“Now if you'll hand me that hammer, Marty.” 16:23 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 16:26 (passage 16:22–16:31); US record: No renewal found

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