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He Walked by Night · Beat 60 · permalink

Private office

43:20–43:24 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 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 43:2243:22

Play from 43:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 103–103. 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 in suit, medium build, dark hair, facing right visible
  • figure in uniform, partially obscured, standing in doorway visible
Seen
projected sketch of a man's face [frame:1], suit [frame:1], uniform [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, investigative; themes: crime investigation, surveillance, identity; style notes: high-contrast lighting, chiaroscuro, medium shot, static framing

A man in a suit stands beside a projected sketch of a face while another figure in uniform stands in the doorway. The scene is dimly lit with the projection as the main light source.

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 43:22 (passage 43:20–43:24); US record: No renewal found

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