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Scarlet Street · Beat 12 · permalink

Sidewalk

5:21–6:23 Registered 1945

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; 4 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 5:265:26Frame at 5:345:34Frame at 5:595:59

Play from 5:21 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 18–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
sidewalk (sidewalk, exterior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in dark suit, medium build, visible in frame 2 and 3 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, balding, visible in frame 2 visible
  • Chris (named at t:5:54): man in dark suit, visible in frame 2 and 3 visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, visible in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • Two men in suits walk through a space with stairs and potted plants. [frame:3]
Also said
“I'll take the east side subway. Gets me to Brooklyn a little quicker.” 5:56 · “I'm a little drunk.” 6:13
Seen
potted plants, stairs, suit, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly tipsy; themes: urban nightlife, male camaraderie, alcohol consumption; style notes: high-contrast black and white, medium shots, naturalistic lighting

Two men in suits walk through a dimly lit, possibly outdoor or semi-outdoor space with stairs and potted plants. One man speaks about another's wife and offers to walk the other to his bus, mentioning spring and being drunk.

“That's JJ's wife? Ha ha! The boss is stepping out! Say, if I had to throw you, God, I'd step out too. I'd be a little laundry tonight.” 5:32 · “Which way do you go, Chris?” 5:54 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 Scarlet Street (1945) at 5:26 (passage 5:21–6:23); US record: No renewal found

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