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He Walked by Night · Beat 99 · permalink

Private office

1:03:25–1:04:40 Registered 1948

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks flagged: visible event not seen. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 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 1:03:411:03:41Frame at 1:04:181:04:18

Play from 1:03:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 60 · shots 173–174. 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 dark suit, light shirt, tie, middle-aged, seated, holding paper visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, patterned tie, standing, holding paper, middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, tie, standing, holding rifle, middle-aged visible
  • man in dark suit, tie, seated, looking at map, middle-aged visible
  • Margaret (named at t:63:40): woman, not visible audible, mentioned
  • Morgan (named at t:64:17): man, not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands holding a rifle while another man looks at a map. [frame:2]
Also said
“The building department plan will show you the whole layout.” 64:00 · “Morgan has just gone into his bungalow alone.” 64:17
Seen
paper document [frame:1], map [frame:2], rifle [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, procedural; themes: police procedure, surveillance, team coordination; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, documentary-style framing

Two men in suits examine a document and a map in an office; one identifies a suspect's location at Bellevue Court, cottage number seven. The team prepares to move out after confirming the suspect's identity and location.

“The place is called Bellevue Court.” 63:33 · “Captain, I couldn't go wrong on that face.” 63:42 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 1:03:41 (passage 1:03:25–1:04:40); US record: No renewal found

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