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He Walked by Night · Beat 44 · permalink

Private office

31:45–32:02 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 31:5431:54

Play from 31:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 73–73. 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
  • dark-clothed, adult, medium build, seen in profile visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The person is visible standing in a dim room. [frame:1]
Seen
window, doorframe
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, violence, reaction; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shot, shadowy interior

A person is visible in a dimly lit interior space after two gunshots are heard. The person reacts audibly to the sound with a cry of alarm.

“BANG! BANG!” 31:46 · “Oh, my God.” 31:50 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 31:54 (passage 31:45–32:02); US record: No renewal found

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