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Scarlet Street · Beat 134 · permalink

Private office

1:28:19–1:28:48 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:28:291:28:29Frame at 1:28:411:28:41Frame at 1:28:471:28:47

Play from 1:28:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 59 · shots 316–318. 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
  • Mr. Holgar (named at t:88:19): older man, balding, wearing a dark suit with a white flower boutonniere visible, audible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark coat and patterned tie, looking down visible
  • man in dark uniform and cap, seen from back visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from back visible
Seen happening
  • Mr. Holgar is shown in a close-up, looking serious. [frame:2]
  • A man in a coat looks down, appearing distressed. [frame:3]
Also said
“There's a box of cigars on the table. Take them along with you.” 88:29 · “Chris, it was a woman, wasn't it?” 88:43
Seen
cigar box [t:88:29], white flower boutonniere [frame:2], dark suit [frame:2], dark coat and patterned tie [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and somber; themes: moral conflict, confrontation, personal distress; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, high contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a suit speaks to others in a dimly lit interior; another man looks down, appearing distressed. The dialogue references taking someone along, making a complaint, and cigars on a table.

“We'll take him along. You can make the complaint, Mr. Holgar. Hold on, Marce.” 88:19 · “I just can't do it. - What, Mr. Holgar? You've done your duty and I'm obliged to you.” 88:23 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 1:28:29 (passage 1:28:19–1:28:48); US record: No renewal found

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