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Scarlet Street · Beat 137 · permalink

Courtroom

1:30:10–1:30:32 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; 3 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 1:30:211:30:21

Play from 1:30:10 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 60 · shots 323–323. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
courtroom (courtroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in light-colored suit, holding object, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, visible on left visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, visible on right visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit holds an object and speaks while two men in hats stand beside him. [frame:1]
Also said
“Uh-huh. She didn't paint those pictures. Old Cross isn't as dumb as he looks.” 90:22 · “He painted them. The accused brought me two pictures. He told me Miss March painted them. In my expert opinion, there's no doubt about it. She was a very great artist.” 90:31
Seen
object held by speaker [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: justice, deception, artistic attribution; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-up framing, formal attire suggests courtroom drama

A man in a suit holds an object while speaking in a dimly lit room with two other men in hats; the transcript discusses fingerprints, a death, and paintings attributed to Miss March. The speaker claims the accused brought him two pictures and asserts Miss March was a great artist.

“This belongs to you too, huh?” 90:13 · “It's got your fingerprints on it. Well, naturally, I picked it up. How did I know she was dead? I thought she was asleep at first.” 90:15 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 1:30:21 (passage 1:30:10–1:30:32); US record: No renewal found

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