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Scarlet Street · Beat 21 · permalink

Bar

15:05–15:56 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 15:1115:11Frame at 15:3615:36Frame at 15:5515:55

Play from 15:05 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 10 · shots 42–44. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: t:15:18
People
  • Chris (named at t:15:39): man, middle-aged, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie and white pocket square, holding a cigarette and lighter visible, audible
  • Kitty (named at t:15:19): woman, blonde, wearing a dark dress, standing near stairs visible, audible
  • man, wearing a hat and dark coat, standing near stairs visible
  • man, wearing a tuxedo with bow tie and flower on lapel, smiling visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo holds a cigarette and lighter while speaking. [frame:1]
  • A woman and a man in a hat stand near stairs and speak. [frame:2]
  • A man in a tuxedo smiles while holding a flower. [frame:3]
Also said
“That's the address.” 15:38 · “Why do you ask that?” 15:44
Seen
cigarette and lighter [frame:1], flower on lapel [frame:3], stairs [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ambiguous; themes: deception, loneliness, social performance; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

A man in a tuxedo speaks with a woman at night; she gives him her address and departs. He is later seen alone, holding a flower, as another man asks about 'Johnny'.

“It's only 10 past 2.” 15:16 · “Oh, it's time for Kitty to be in bed.” 15:19 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 15:11 (passage 15:05–15:56); US record: No renewal found

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