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Scarlet Street · Beat 79 · permalink

Private office

47:26–48:53 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; 2 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:5347:53Frame at 48:3648:36

Play from 47:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 28 · shots 203–204. 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, wearing a light-colored hat and dark suit, seated visible
  • Johnny (named at t:48:46): woman, wearing a light-colored dress with dark trim, standing, holding a painting visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man sits at a desk while the woman stands beside him holding a painting. [frame:1]
  • The woman holds a painting and looks down at it while the man looks at her. [frame:2]
Also said
“He tried to kiss me today.” 48:34 · “I can't stand to have anybody touch me but you.” 48:49
Seen
painting [frame:2], desk [frame:1], hat [frame:1, frame:2], telephone [frame:1], window [frame:1], dress [frame:1, frame:2], cigarette [frame:1], chair [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and manipulative; themes: deception, power dynamics, art as commodity, unwanted affection; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman are in a room with paintings; the woman holds a painting while the man looks on. The transcript reveals they are discussing the man's artwork, his character, and the woman's discomfort with his advances.

“Are you sure he's not a phony? He's too dumb to be a phony.” 47:54 · “I wonder if I couldn't sell these.” 48:19 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 47:53 (passage 47:26–48:53); US record: No renewal found

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