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53:28–54:09 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 53:3753:37Frame at 53:5753:57

Play from 53:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 223–224. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • John (named at t:53:41): man wearing a striped suit, bow tie, and fedora-style hat; medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • Penny (named at t:53:43): woman with dark hair, wearing a light-colored blouse or dress; appears middle-aged visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room filled with paintings. [frame:1]
  • The man and woman are closer, appearing to converse; the man gestures with his hand. [frame:2]
Also said
“You know how much a good diamond costs? I gave you $900. But you pipe down.” 53:54 · “You've been telling me what a dope the old guy is, huh?” 54:07
Seen
paintings on easels [frame:1], paintings on wall [frame:1], fedora-style hat [frame:2], bow tie [frame:2], striped suit [frame:2], light-colored blouse or dress [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: deception, financial transaction, accusation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

Two people interact in an art-filled room; one asks for a name and address, mentions arsenic and a diamond ring, and accuses the other of calling someone a dope. The setting includes paintings and easels, suggesting an artist's studio or gallery.

“Let me have your name and address.” 53:32 · “Arsenic?” 53:50 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 53:37 (passage 53:28–54:09); US record: No renewal found

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