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He Walked by Night · Beat 54 · permalink

Private office

41:35–41:45 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 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 41:4041:40

Play from 41:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 90–90. 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, middle-aged, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, neatly groomed hair with waves visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is shown in a close-up, looking off-camera. [frame:1]
Also said
“That's the idea, Miss Smith.” 41:39
Seen
suit, patterned tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, controlled; themes: professionalism, dialogue-driven; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, studio set

A man in a suit and patterned tie is shown in a close-up. The transcript includes a comment about his hair and a line addressing 'Miss Smith.'

“His hair had waves in it.” 41:36 · “Well-groomed.” 41:37 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 41:40 (passage 41:35–41:45); US record: No renewal found

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