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Scarlet Street · Beat 123 · permalink

Private office

1:21:17–1:23:35 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; 5 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.

Frame at 1:22:261:22:26

Play from 1:21:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 54 · shots 287–287. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing fedora, dark coat, tie, seated, hands clasped, somber expression visible
  • Johnny (named at t:81:33): unseen, referenced as Johnny audible, mentioned
  • Chris (named at t:81:23): unseen, referenced as Chris audible, mentioned
  • Millie (named at t:82:54): unseen, referenced as Millie and Kitty audible, mentioned
  • Clarence (named at t:81:39): unseen, referenced as Clarence audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man sits with hands clasped, looking downcast. [frame:1]
Also said
“Jeepers, I love you, Johnny.” 82:17 · “Oh, just a fight. Listen, he can't live without me any more than I can live without him.” 83:01
Seen
fedora hat, dark coat, tie, framed pictures on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, emotionally charged, confrontational; themes: emotional dependency, conflict and blame, love and resentment, personal crisis; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, shadowed face, period costume, framed wall art suggests interior decor

A man in a fedora and coat sits in a dim interior, visibly distressed. Dialogue reveals conflict between characters named Johnny and Chris, with references to a fight and emotional dependency.

“Chris?” 81:23 · “I ought to push you over on your head. How'd I know he was coming here tonight?” 81:40 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 1:22:26 (passage 1:21:17–1:23:35); US record: No renewal found

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