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Scarlet Street · Beat 138 · permalink

Private office

1:30:32–1:30:55 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; 2 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 1:30:411:30:41Frame at 1:30:521:30:52

Play from 1:30:32 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 61 · shots 324–325. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing dark suit and tie, seated in chair visible, audible
  • younger man, dark hair, wearing suit and tie, seated in chair visible
Also said
“Yeah, he was mean when he was drunk.” 90:49 · “He said he was going to fix it when he left my place around 2 a.m.” 90:52
Seen
wooden chair [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], spotlight [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: conflict, memory, accusation; style notes: high-contrast studio lighting, tight framing on seated subject, minimal background

A man in a suit sits in a chair and speaks about another man he disliked, referencing a studio rental and a late-night departure. The setting is a plain studio with spotlight lighting, showing only the speaker.

“She told me she was an artist when she rented the studio. He was with her.” 90:43 · “I didn't like him then and I don't like him now.” 90:47 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 1:30:41 (passage 1:30:32–1:30:55); US record: No renewal found

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