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Scarlet Street · Beat 135 · permalink

Police station

1:28:48–1:29:45 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; 6 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 1:28:501:28:50Frame at 1:28:551:28:55Frame at 1:29:221:29:22

Play from 1:28:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 319–321. 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:3
People
  • older man, balding, wearing a dark suit with a flower boutonniere, smoking a pipe visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing a dark coat and patterned tie visible
  • man seated at desk, wearing suit, writing visible
  • man standing, wearing hat and suit, holding papers visible
  • man standing, wearing hat and suit, partially visible visible
  • man standing, wearing hat and suit, holding a ring visible
Seen happening
  • A group examines papers and a diamond ring at a desk. [frame:3]
Also said
“This is yours, too.” 89:29 · “But it's her blood.” 89:33
Seen
pipe, flower boutonniere, diamond ring, papers, desk, hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: justice, guilt, evidence, confrontation; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups, static framing, noir aesthetic

A man in a suit speaks to another man in a dark coat; later, a group gathers around a desk with papers and a ring. The transcript includes dialogue about jail, a car, blood, and a diamond ring.

“I'm not gonna put you in jail, Chris.” 88:49 · “Well, I didn't do anything!” 89:15 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 1:28:50 (passage 1:28:48–1:29:45); US record: No renewal found

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