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Jail Bait · Beat 4 · permalink

Private office

1:05:13–1:11:12 Registered 1954

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 6 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:05:481:05:48Frame at 1:07:251:07:25Frame at 1:09:071:09:07Frame at 1:10:361:10:36

Play from 1:05:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 3 · shots 24–39. 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
  • Doc (named at t:65:18): older man, white hair, wearing dark suit, standing visible, audible
  • Marilyn (named at t:65:18): woman, blonde, seated, wearing light dress visible, audible
  • person seated, head and face completely wrapped in white bandages visible, audible
  • Brady (named at t:66:06): man, dark hair, wearing suit, standing visible, audible
  • Miss Willis (named at t:68:45): woman, dark hair, wearing light dress, standing visible, audible
  • Inspector (named at t:68:13): man, dark hair, wearing suit, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man with bandages sits as a doctor and a woman look on. [frame:1]
  • The doctor touches the bandaged man's head. [frame:2]
  • Police officers and a woman stand around the seated bandaged man. [frame:3]
  • The film ends with a title card reading 'THE END'. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yes, Inspector. That's the man that killed Matt.” 68:53 · “No. No. No. This is my son.” 69:19
Seen
bandages, scissors, window with shutters, sofa, title card: THE END
On screen
{'frame': 4, 'value': 'THE END\nA HOWCO PICTURE Presentation\nMADE IN HOLLYWOOD, U.S.A.'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and dramatic; themes: identity, deception, law vs. loyalty; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, confined interior space

A man with bandages is unmasked in a room as police arrive; the doctor claims he is his husband, but a witness identifies him as the killer. The film ends with a title card.

“How sure can I be? Why, Doc, you got my word for it. Now, let's get with it. And, Doc, for your sake, I hope you made a good job. I know I made a good job. Marilyn, will you please get me the... the shears...” 65:18 · “Hold it. Take it easy. Brady. Brady. You got the wrong man, copper.” 66:06 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 1:05:48 (passage 1:05:13–1:11:12); US record: No renewal found

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