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59:49–1:00:55 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:221:00:22

Play from 59:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 48 · shots 150–150. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a mail carrier uniform with cap and bow tie, seated visible, audible
  • man wearing suit, tie, and fedora, standing visible, audible
Also said
“He never gets any mail, but I see him around me all the time.” 60:29 · “He lives in one of the courts.” 60:33
Seen
United States Post Office sign, mail carrier uniform with cap and bow tie, suit, tie, fedora
On screen
UNITED STATES POST OFFICE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful, investigative; themes: investigation, surveillance, urban anonymity; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men converse in a post office; one, a mail carrier, recalls seeing a man on his route who lives in a court and is never seen receiving mail. The other man, possibly an investigator, asks about the timing of the route.

“Well, how about it? Anybody recognize it?” 60:01 · “Well, this may not mean anything, but he looks like a guy that's on my route.” 60:26 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 1:00:22 (passage 59:49–1:00:55); US record: No renewal found

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