Street
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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 22:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 134–134. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- Time of day
- night evidence: frame:1
- Period
- 1940s evidence: film release date and car design in frame:1
- People
- unseen, audible only audible
- Win Lim (named at t:26:08): unseen, audible only audible
- Brady (named at t:26:16): unseen, audible only audible
- unseen, audible only audible
- Seen happening
- A car is shown driving on a dark street at night. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “All right, where's the girl?” 25:24 · “Yeah, that Chinese girl got away. Win Lim. I want her picked up.” 26:08
- Seen
- car [frame:1], street sign [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: pursuit, mystery, crime investigation; style notes: black-and-white, night exterior, low-angle car shot, high-contrast lighting
A character discusses being followed and a valuable scroll linked to a murder, then flees in a car while another character calls police to track a taxi and a girl named Win Lim. The scene ends with a phone call to homicide.
“I'm due at Dr. Benton.” 22:32 · “But there's something I must do.” 24:20 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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