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He Walked by Night · Beat 58 · permalink

Private office

42:23–42:45 Registered 1948

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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:2542:25Frame at 42:3342:33Frame at 42:4342:43Frame at 42:4442:44

Play from 42:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 97–101. 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:2
People
  • man in suit, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • woman, mid-adult, visible in profile, wearing dark dress and pearls visible
  • woman, mid-adult, visible in profile, dark hair visible
  • man, mid-adult, visible in background, wearing suit visible
  • man, mid-adult, visible in background, wearing suit visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands beside a projected sketch of a face. [frame:1]
  • A group of people sit and watch the presentation; a clock on the wall reads 7. [frame:2]
  • Close-up of two women watching intently. [frame:3]
  • Close-up of the sketch with grid lines drawn over it. [frame:4]
Also said
“His eyes were a little like that.” 42:31 · “Go on, Lee.” 42:37
Seen
projected sketch of a face, clock on wall showing 7, grid lines on sketch
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and focused; themes: investigation, facial identification, group deliberation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots of observers, close-up on sketch with grid lines for analysis

A man in a suit stands beside a projected sketch of a face while others watch; a close-up of the sketch shows grid lines. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about eyes and a name, Lee.

“I'm sorry.” 42:24 · “One minute, please. Wait.” 42:28 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 42:25 (passage 42:23–42:45); US record: No renewal found

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