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Scarlet Street · Beat 34 · permalink

Living room

22:37–23:06 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; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 22:5222:52

Play from 22:37 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 15 · shots 73–73. 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
People
  • man, light hair, wearing suspenders and a collared shirt visible, audible
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light blouse, holding a cigarette visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a paper and speaks to a woman who is smoking. [frame:1]
Also said
“This bird is goofy about you.” 22:59 · “I can't take money off an old man like that.” 23:07
Seen
paper [frame:1], cigarette [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: financial desperation, moral compromise, gendered power dynamics; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

A man and a woman sit indoors, discussing money and a potential date; the man holds a paper while the woman smokes. The dialogue suggests the man is frustrated about financial disparity and urges the woman to date someone wealthy.

“He's in the big money, isn't he? You said $50,000 a picture, didn't you?” 22:45 · “You don't have to call, uh, what's-his-name and get a measly 50.” 22:54 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 22:52 (passage 22:37–23:06); US record: No renewal found

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