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Scarlet Street · Beat 19 · permalink

Private office

13:56–14:21 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 13:5913:59Frame at 14:0414:04Frame at 14:1214:12Frame at 14:1914:19

Play from 13:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 10 · shots 34–37. 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
  • woman with dark curled hair, wearing a dark dress with lace or ruffled sleeves, visible in frame:1 and frame:4 visible
  • man with slicked-back hair, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square, visible in frame:2 and frame:3 visible, audible
Also said
“I don't sell my pictures. Well, not in New York, you mean.” 14:14 · “No, I, uh... I know. I bet you sell your pictures in Europe, France or someplace like that. Tell I don't know much about painting.” 14:19
Seen
{'item': 'candlestick lamp with lit candle', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'dark dress with lace or ruffled sleeves', 'frame': 4}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and evasive; themes: artistic value, deception, social class; style notes: close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests a dramatic or noir tone

A woman and a man in formal attire discuss the value of paintings, with the man claiming he does not sell his work in New York. The woman suggests he might sell in Europe, and the man deflects by saying he doesn't know much about painting.

“For $50,000? Well, you can't put any price on masterpieces like that.” 13:56 · “You know what, Chris? I bet I saw some of your pictures there and didn't know it. Next time I'll look for your name.” 14:07 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 13:59 (passage 13:56–14:21); US record: No renewal found

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