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He Walked by Night · Beat 9 · permalink

Vehicle interior

8:30–10:02 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; 7 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 9:169:16

Play from 8:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 15–15. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Kevin (named at t:8:33): man wearing a fedora and dark coat, visible in vehicle interior visible, audible
  • Lee (named at t:8:31): man wearing a hat, visible leaning into vehicle visible, audible
  • Captain Breen (named at t:9:40): man referred to as Captain, audible and visible in vehicle visible, audible
  • Joe (named at t:8:59): man named Joe, audible only audible
  • Frank (named at t:9:03): man named Frank, audible only audible
  • Marty (named at t:9:53): man named Marty, audible only audible
  • Chuck (named at t:9:53): man named Chuck, audible only audible
Also said
“Regular arsenal.” 9:21 · “A pair of quark gloves, Captain.” 9:46
Seen
vehicle interior, fedora, dark coat, glove compartment [t:8:42], nitroglycerin (suspected) [t:8:44], electrical device [t:9:26], United States Navy equipment [t:9:29], quark gloves [t:9:46]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: crime investigation, evidence collection, police procedure; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on vehicle interior, noir aesthetic

Police officers examine a vehicle's contents, finding suspicious items including what may be nitroglycerin and Navy equipment. They collect evidence and prepare to follow up on leads from a dragnet.

“Has the door been checked, Lee?” 8:31 · “I think it's nitroglycerin.” 8:44 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 9:16 (passage 8:30–10:02); US record: No renewal found

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