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He Walked by Night · Beat 59 · permalink

Private office

42:45–43:20 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; 7 names 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 43:0343:03

Play from 42:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 102–102. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing suit and tie, seated visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing suit, seated, profile view visible
  • man with receding hairline, wearing suit, seated, looking forward visible
  • man partially visible behind p1, wearing suit visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing suit, seated, right side of frame visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing suit, seated, left side of frame visible
  • Lee (named at t:43:10): man speaking off-screen, directing others audible
Seen happening
  • Men in suits sit and look forward while being directed to hold a pose. [frame:1]
Also said
“He had a patch over one eye when he come into my diet, my place of business.” 42:56 · “Well, the guy that stuck me up had on horn-rimmed glasses.” 43:02
Seen
suit [frame:1], tie [frame:1], dark background [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: investigation, witness identification, suspicion; style notes: black-and-white, medium group shot, high contrast lighting, static camera

A group of men in suits are seated in a dimly lit room, listening as someone off-screen directs them to hold a pose. The transcript includes descriptions of a suspect’s appearance, including a patch over one eye, horn-rimmed glasses, and a band-aid across his nose.

“Now, now you've got it.” 42:46 · “That looks like him, only a little madder.” 42:54 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 43:03 (passage 42:45–43:20); US record: No renewal found

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