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Scarlet Street · Beat 26 · permalink

Living room

16:54–17:20 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:5816:58Frame at 17:0317:03Frame at 17:1117:11Frame at 17:1917:19

Play from 16:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 50–53. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:4
People
  • Charlie (named at t:16:57): man in white shirt and dark trousers, mid-adult, average build visible, audible
  • older man with white hair, wearing a suit jacket visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in front of a mirror, adjusting his tie. [frame:1]
  • The two men face each other and speak. [frame:2]
  • The man in the white shirt gestures while speaking to the older man. [frame:3]
  • The room is shown empty, with a lamp, couch, and mirror visible. [frame:4]
Also said
“It's good to see you, anyway.” 17:07 · “Say, that was a swell party last night, wasn't it, Charlie? Say, what time will we go home?” 17:10
Seen
mirror, lamp, couch, coat rack with hanging coat, potted plant
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social interaction, domestic space, unspoken tension; style notes: medium shots, dim lighting, static camera, classic noir framing

Two men converse in a dimly lit interior space; one is seen in a mirror and then facing the other, while the transcript reveals they are discussing a recent party and plans to leave. The room contains furniture and a mirror, suggesting a private living area.

“Well, this is a pleasure. I didn't expect to see you, Charlie. But, Chris, you asked me.” 16:57 · “My wife. Oh, it's...” 17:05 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 16:58 (passage 16:54–17:20); US record: No renewal found

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