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Scarlet Street · Beat 136 · permalink

Police station

1:29:45–1:30:10 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:29:571:29:57

Play from 1:29:45 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 322–322. 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 seated at desk, wearing dark suit, middle-aged, thinning hair visible, audible
  • man standing, wearing light-colored suit and fedora, holding papers or jewelry visible, audible
  • man standing, wearing dark suit and fedora, holding notebook or wallet visible
  • man standing, wearing police uniform, hat, and badge visible
  • man standing, wearing dark suit and fedora, partially obscured visible
Also said
“But he cleaned her out. Why wouldn't I? She didn't have any more use for it, did she?” 89:58 · “Listen, you guys, I want a lawyer. I'm a citizen. I got my rights.” 90:08
Seen
desk, jewelry, police uniform, fedora hats, notebook or wallet
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: legal rights, confession, material loss, authority vs. individual; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot framing, high-contrast lighting typical of film noir, focused on character interaction at a desk

A man seated at a desk speaks to several standing men in a room with police officers present; he demands a lawyer while others handle jewelry and discuss its value. The scene appears to be an interrogation or police station setting.

“You guys know a lot, don't you? It costs twelve hundred.” 89:47 · “Here's your personal jewelry. Not much value.” 89:52 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 1:29:57 (passage 1:29:45–1:30:10); US record: No renewal found

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