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He Walked by Night · Beat 6 · permalink

Street

5:15–6:08 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: time_of_day without evidence. 3 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 5:425:42

Play from 5:15 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 2 · shots 11–11. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen caller audible
  • unseen operator audible
Also said
“What's the address? 5057 State Street, just west of Santa Monica.” 6:04
Seen
streetlight, building with lit windows
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: crime, emergency response; style notes: low-key lighting, night exterior, static wide shot

A call is made to the police department reporting a shooting at 5057 State Street. The scene shows a dark street at night with a building and streetlight visible.

“Police Department, operator 27. I want to report the shooting of a policeman.” 5:54 · “Hold on, please. Give me that again, please. I'm calling to report the shooting of a policeman.” 5:59 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 5:42 (passage 5:15–6:08); US record: No renewal found

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