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Scarlet Street · Beat 120 · permalink

Private office

1:16:05–1:16:31 Registered 1945

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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:16:111:16:11Frame at 1:16:191:16:19Frame at 1:16:261:16:26

Play from 1:16:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 282–284. 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
  • middle-aged, heavy-set, wearing a dark patterned jacket, headband, and visibly distressed visible
  • middle-aged, clean-shaven, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, seated, calm demeanor visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a headband and patterned jacket looks distressed, hand near his mouth. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit and tie speaks calmly, seated against a patterned wall. [frame:2]
  • The two men face each other in conversation, one visibly tense. [frame:3]
Also said
“I need money.” 76:24 · “You're a cashier. It oughta be easy for you to put your hands on a couple of thousand.” 76:26
Seen
headband, patterned jacket, dark suit and patterned tie, circular-patterned wall panel
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: blackmail, financial desperation, moral compromise; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera, noir aesthetic

Two men are in a dimly lit interior, one asking for money while referencing Adele and the other's role as a cashier. The conversation suggests a threat or negotiation, with one man visibly distressed.

“What's it worth to you for me to...” 76:10 · “Yes, babe.” 76:17 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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Frame from Scarlet Street (1945) at 1:16:11 (passage 1:16:05–1:16:31); US record: No renewal found

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