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He Walked by Night · Beat 62 · permalink

Police station

43:26–43:55 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:2843:28Frame at 43:4243:42

Play from 43:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 105–106. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit, standing, facing right visible
  • man in suit, facing left, speaking to p3 visible
  • Miss Montalvo (named at t:43:34): woman with dark hair, wearing dark dress, speaking visible, audible
  • man in uniform, standing behind p2 and p3 visible
  • man in suit, standing left, facing p2 and p3 visible
Seen happening
  • A projected sketch of a man's face is shown on a screen. [frame:1]
Also said
“How do you say it in English? It's a good sign, sir. Ah, good.” 43:38 · “Try another one, Lee.” 43:52
Seen
projected sketch [frame:1], screen [frame:1], uniform [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: police investigation, witness identification, collaborative sketching; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, focused lighting on faces and screen

A woman speaks to a man identified as Captain while others observe; a projected sketch of a man's face is shown. The dialogue includes a comment on the nose of a victim and a request to try another sketch.

“I'm going to go.” 43:30 · “Señor Capitán.” 43:34 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 43:28 (passage 43:26–43:55); US record: No renewal found

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