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He Walked by Night · Beat 5 · permalink

Sidewalk

3:58–5:15 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 4:374:37

Play from 3:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 10–10. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
People
  • Miss Logan (named at t:4:54): woman, visible only as a figure in dim light; no clear clothing or age details visible, audible
  • unseen, off-camera; voice sounds male, authoritative audible
Also said
“Let me see some identification.” 5:02 · “How about my army discharge? I got it right here.” 5:13
Seen
streetlight [frame:1], sidewalk [frame:1], tree [frame:1], building facade [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, interrogative; themes: authority vs. civilian, suspicion, identity verification; style notes: low-key lighting, night exterior, static framing, high contrast shadows

A woman is questioned on a sidewalk at night by someone off-camera who demands identification. She claims to have forgotten her wallet but offers her army discharge papers instead.

“What were you doing back at that radio shop?” 4:52 · “Miss Logan?” 4:54 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 4:37 (passage 3:58–5:15); US record: No renewal found

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