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He Walked by Night · Beat 64 · permalink

Theatre

44:18–44:35 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 44:2244:22Frame at 44:2744:27Frame at 44:3044:30Frame at 44:3344:33

Play from 44:18 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 110–113. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in suit, standing at podium visible
  • woman with styled hair, wearing dark dress with brooch visible
  • woman with dark hair, side profile visible
  • man in suit, seated in audience visible
  • man in suit, seated in audience, back to camera visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands at a podium addressing an audience. [frame:2]
  • The audience watches a projected image of a face. [frame:2]
  • A woman in the audience looks forward with a neutral expression. [frame:3]
  • The man at the podium continues speaking. [frame:4]
Also said
“Go ahead.” 44:27 · “but thicker lips.” 44:30
Seen
projected image of a face [frame:2], podium [frame:2], audience seating [frame:2], wall clock [frame:2], brooch on woman's dress [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and focused; themes: observation, description, public presentation; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium shots of speaker and audience, static camera framing

A man stands at a podium addressing an audience in a dimly lit room; a projected image of a face is visible on a screen. The audience, including several women, watches attentively while dialogue describes facial features.

“I think his lower lip stuck out more.” 44:19 · “The mouth was thin and mean, like it never laughed.” 44:22 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 44:22 (passage 44:18–44:35); US record: No renewal found

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