Police station
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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 2:22 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 2 · shots 5–7. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
- Time of day
- night evidence: t:2:40
- Period
- 1940s evidence: t:2:40
- People
- Robert Rollins (named at t:2:40): man in light-colored uniform shirt, seated at a desk in a busy office visible
- man in light-colored uniform shirt, close-up, looking off-camera visible
- multiple people in uniform, seated at desks with telephones and papers visible
- Seen happening
- A wide shot shows a busy police station interior with officers at desks. [frame:1]
- A close-up shows a man in uniform looking off-camera. [frame:2]
- A wide night shot shows a cityscape with scattered lights. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “This is the case history of a killer, taken from the files of the detective division.” 2:32 · “The story properly starts here in Hollywood Division headquarters at 1 o'clock of a June morning last year. Officer Robert Rollins had finished his tour of duty and signed out.” 2:40
- Seen
- telephone [frame:1], desk [frame:1], papers [frame:1], city lights [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: nocturnal, procedural; themes: police work, urban night, official record; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, wide shots for setting, close-ups for character focus
The beat opens with a wide shot of a busy police station interior, cuts to a close-up of a man in uniform, and ends with a night view of a city. The transcript identifies the setting as Hollywood Division headquarters at 1 a.m. on a June morning and introduces Officer Robert Rollins.
“Watson, Wilshire, and West Los Angeles.” 2:22 · “is never done. That's true.” 2:30 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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