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He Walked by Night · Beat 69 · permalink

Private office

49:43–49:54 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:4949:49

Play from 49:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 120–120. 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, mid-adult, wearing dark suit or jacket, visible from waist up, partially in shadow visible
Seen happening
  • A man is seen standing in a doorway or near a lamp in a dark room. [frame:1]
Seen
lamp, doorframe
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, suspenseful; themes: escape, pursuit, isolation; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, deep shadows, tight framing on character

A man stands in a dimly lit interior space, partially obscured by shadow, as a voice says they will get away from him. The scene is shot in black and white with high contrast lighting.

“I get away from him.” 49:54 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 49:49 (passage 49:43–49:54); US record: No renewal found

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