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He Walked by Night · Beat 25 · permalink

Private office

17:11–17:20 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 17:1617:16

Play from 17:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 47–47. 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 dark hat and suit, visible from side visible
  • man wearing a dark hat, leaning over table, visible from back visible
  • man wearing a dark hat and suit, visible from front-right visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand around a table with equipment. [frame:1]
Seen
hats [frame:1], table with equipment [frame:1], hanging light fixture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: surveillance, collaboration, mystery; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, focused on group interaction

Three men in hats gather around a table with equipment; one speaks. The setting appears to be an interior room with a hanging light.

“Take a look.” 17:19 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 17:16 (passage 17:11–17:20); US record: No renewal found

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