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He Walked by Night · Beat 67 · permalink

Private office

44:53–45:15 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; 2 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 45:0445:04

Play from 44:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 39 · shots 118–118. 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, seen from side and back, dark hair visible
  • Lee (named at t:45:06): man in suit, facing p1, mustache visible visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand close together in a dim interior, one facing the other. [frame:1]
Also said
“Lee, I want a retouched photograph.” 45:06 · “Lights.” 45:12
Seen
suit [frame:1], mustache [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: identity manipulation, investigation, photographic evidence; style notes: low-key lighting, close framing, black-and-white film stock, dramatic shadows

Two men are in a dimly lit interior space; one identifies another as 'Roy' and requests a retouched photograph to alter hair and eyebrow appearance. The scene ends with a command to turn on lights.

“except for the hair being a little lighter and the eyebrows heavier.” 44:54 · “It's Roy.” 44:59 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 45:04 (passage 44:53–45:15); US record: No renewal found

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