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Jail Bait · Beat 1 · permalink

Police station

0:00–57:38 Registered 1954

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; 8 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 1:181:18Frame at 17:5817:58Frame at 32:2132:21Frame at 51:2951:29

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Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–18. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Inspector Johns (named at t:2:23): man in suit, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • Miss Gregor (named at t:2:20): woman, blonde, 20s, wearing suit visible, audible
  • Don Gregor (named at t:2:23): man, 20s, wearing casual clothes visible, audible
  • man, 40s, wearing suit, seated at desk visible
  • man, 30s, wearing hat and coat visible
  • man, 30s, wearing police uniform audible
  • man, 30s, wearing casual clothes audible
  • Dr. Gregor (named at t:9:30): man, 40s, wearing suit audible
Also said
“How about my gun?” 3:25 · “I think we'll hold on to that for a little while.” 3:27
Seen
gun, desk, chair, blinds, lamp, plants, hat, suit
On screen
We wish to express our deepest gratitude to the officers and men of the Alhambra Police Department, Alhambra, California -- the Temple City Sheriff's Substation, Temple City, California -- and the Hollywood branch of the Los Angeles Police Department -- all who made the filming of this picture possible.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: crime, family loyalty, legal consequences, moral ambiguity; style notes: black-and-white, studio-lit interiors, medium shots focusing on dialogue

A man is released from police custody after his sister posts bail, but he is warned about carrying a gun and associating with a criminal named Brady. Later, he visits a bar where he is recognized and confronted by police officers.

“I'm Inspector Johns. This is Detective Lieutenant Lawrence. How do you do? I hope I'm happy to know you. You put up the bail for your brother? Yes.” 2:23 · “Of course you realize, Miss Gregor, that if your brother fails to show up for trial, you will forfeit the bail money.” 2:34 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 Jail Bait (1954) at 1:18 (passage 0:00–57:38); US record: No renewal found

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