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Scarlet Street · Beat 81 · permalink

Private office

49:18–49:57 Registered 1945

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 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 49:3849:38

Play from 49:18 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 29 · shots 206–206. 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 in suit, carrying briefcase, seen from behind visible
  • Ben (named at t:49:28): man in vest and tie, seated at desk visible, audible
  • Mr. Cross (named at t:49:28): man referred to as Mr. Cross audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man walks down an office corridor carrying a briefcase. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm going to go.” 49:33
Seen
briefcase [frame:1], office cubicle with glass partition [frame:1], desk [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quiet, procedural; themes: workplace routine, end of day, hierarchical interaction; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, static framing, office cubicles suggest institutional setting

A man in a suit walks through an office corridor carrying a briefcase while another man sits at a desk inside a cubicle. A voice asks if Mr. Cross is working late, and he replies he is nearly finished and will leave soon.

“Well, maybe.” 49:19 · “Working late tonight, Mr. Cross? I'm about through, Ben. You can let me out in a minute. Yes, sir.” 49:28 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 49:38 (passage 49:18–49:57); US record: No renewal found

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