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He Walked by Night · Beat 63 · permalink

Police station

43:55–44:18 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 43:5643:56Frame at 44:0244:02Frame at 44:1244:12

Play from 43:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 107–109. 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:3
People
  • man in suit, standing at front of room, addressing group visible, audible
  • man in suit, seated, looking toward speaker visible
  • woman with dark hair, seated, looking toward speaker visible
  • man in suit, standing near speaker, partially visible visible
  • Miss Montalvo (named at t:44:02): audible speaker, not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A police sketch of a man's face is displayed on screen. [frame:1]
  • Three people are seen in conversation, one woman and two men. [frame:2]
  • A man stands at the front of a room addressing a seated audience with a projection screen behind him. [frame:3]
Also said
“The next series, please.” 44:14
Seen
police sketch, projection screen, clock, seated audience
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious, procedural; themes: police procedure, collaborative investigation, forensic sketching; style notes: black-and-white, medium and wide shots, studio lighting, formal framing

A police sketch is being reviewed in a room with several people present; a man addresses the group while a projection screen shows the sketch. The transcript includes dialogue about the sketch's accuracy and instructions to continue with the next series.

“Thank you very much, Miss Montalvo.” 44:02 · “That's pretty close, all right. Pretty close. Perfect. All right. Now we'll start on the mouth and chin.” 44:09 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 43:56 (passage 43:55–44:18); US record: No renewal found

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