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Scarlet Street · Beat 140 · permalink

Private office

1:31:27–1:31:38 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:31:331:31:33

Play from 1:31:27 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 62 · shots 328–328. 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
  • man in dark suit and tie, middle-aged, heavy-set, with slicked-back hair visible, audible
Seen
suit and tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: deception, self-doubt, accusation; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast studio lighting, dramatic shadows on face

A man in a suit is shown in a close-up, speaking about his inability to paint and destroying his copies. The transcript includes an exclamation that he is lying.

“I really can't paint.” 91:32 · “My copies were so bad I had to destroy them. For cat's sake, he's lying!” 91:36 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 1:31:33 (passage 1:31:27–1:31:38); US record: No renewal found

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