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He Walked by Night · Beat 29 · permalink

Vehicle interior

20:22–20:26 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 name 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 20:2420:24

Play from 20:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 53–53. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mid-adult, wearing a light-colored shirt, visible from chest up, leaning forward visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans forward inside a vehicle, looking down at the dashboard area. [frame:1]
Seen
car interior [frame:1], light source [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: isolation, suspense; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on character, high contrast between light and shadow

A man is visible inside a vehicle at night, leaning forward over the dashboard. The scene is dimly lit, with light reflecting off the car’s interior surfaces.

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 20:24 (passage 20:22–20:26); US record: No renewal found

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