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Scarlet Street · Beat 133 · permalink

Police station

1:27:49–1:28:19 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; 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.

Frame at 1:28:041:28:04

Play from 1:27:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 315–315. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform, cap, standing at counter visible
  • man in dark uniform, cap, standing at counter visible
  • Mr. Holgar (named at t:88:19): older man in suit, standing behind counter visible, audible
  • Chris (named at t:87:59): man in dark suit, standing at counter, facing officers visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Officers confront Chris at a counter while Mr. Holgar stands behind it. [frame:1]
Also said
“I checked the cash before you came in. Do you know how much is missing?” 88:10 · “We'll take him along. You can make the complaint, Mr. Holgar. Hold on, Marce.” 88:19
Seen
counter [frame:1], uniforms [frame:1], suit [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: accusation, authority, financial crime; style notes: medium shot, high contrast lighting, static framing, classic noir composition

A man named Chris is being confronted by officers and a man named Mr. Holgar about a missing $1,200; the scene takes place indoors at a counter where cash was checked. A man named Higgins is mentioned as the source of the tip.

“Go on, Chris. Wait a minute.” 87:59 · “What made you do it, Chris?” 88:03 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 1:28:04 (passage 1:27:49–1:28:19); US record: No renewal found

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