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Scarlet Street · Beat 139 · permalink

Private office

1:30:55–1:31:27 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 1:30:581:30:58Frame at 1:31:141:31:14

Play from 1:30:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 61 · shots 326–327. 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 striped tie, seated visible, audible
  • younger man, neat hair, wearing light suit with white boutonniere, seated visible
Also said
“She never let anyone see her paint.” 91:12 · “He stole from me, from his employer, from Catherine March. My wife, I mean my former wife, is correct.” 91:23
Seen
suit [frame:1], striped tie [frame:1], boutonniere [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: deception, accusation, hidden identity; style notes: high-contrast studio lighting, tight framing on seated figures, formal attire suggests a serious confrontation

A man in a suit speaks emphatically while seated; another man in a suit with a boutonniere listens. The transcript reveals accusations of theft and murder, and a discussion about a woman's secret painting and handwriting.

“That's when I tell him, you look out, Johnny, you kill somebody. So he kills her with my eyes fake. And then I heard her say hello, Johnny, before she hung up.” 90:55 · “I never saw her paint. That was one of her peculiar traits.” 91:08 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 1:30:58 (passage 1:30:55–1:31:27); US record: No renewal found

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