Pier
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; 9 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.
Play from 1:11:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 32–75. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- pier (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2, frame:3
- People
- man wearing a hat and glasses, seated in the front passenger seat of a car visible
- woman with dark hair, seated in the back of a car, wearing a dark coat visible
- man in a light shirt, running under a pier visible
- man in a police uniform, standing on a pier visible
- man in a police uniform, standing on a pier visible
- Dan (named at t:71:48): man, audible in transcript, speaking about a boat and a gun audible
- Helen (named at t:77:58): woman, audible in transcript, speaking to Dan audible
- man, audible in transcript, speaking about a news broadcast audible
- man, audible in transcript, speaking about a suspect named Brady audible
- Seen happening
- Two police officers stand on a pier near motorcycles. [frame:2]
- A man runs under a pier. [frame:3]
- The film's cast list is displayed on screen. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Mackey regained consciousness at St. Mark's Hospital shortly after midnight and named Brady as his assailant.” 74:06 · “I'll be waiting for you, Dan. If you want me to.” 77:58
- Seen
- car [frame:1], motorcycles [frame:2], pier [frame:2, frame:3], cast list [frame:4]
- On screen
- {'value': 'CAST OF CHARACTERS Dan. ROONEY Vera JEANNE Nick TAYLOR HOLMES ART SMITH Chuck WALLY CASSELL RICHARD LANE Lt. Nelson Millie PATSY', 'evidence': 'frame:4'}
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: crime, fugitive, romance, police pursuit; style notes: black and white, medium shots, high contrast lighting, static camera
A man and a woman are in a car with a police officer; a man runs under a pier; the film's cast list is shown. A radio broadcast reports on a manhunt for a suspect named Brady, who is accused of assaulting a man named Mackey and is believed to have a gun.
“I'm going with you, Dan. You've taken too many chances already. I've got to go on by myself from here.” 71:48 · “She won't be if she takes that gun. After that, she'll be an accessory.” 72:17 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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