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Scarlet Street · Beat 9 · permalink

Dining room

3:26–3:48 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; 5 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 3:273:27Frame at 3:383:38

Play from 3:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 11–12. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
dining_room (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • J.J. (named at t:3:27): man in tuxedo, middle-aged, heavyset, standing at head of table visible, audible
  • man in tuxedo, seated left, smiling, clapping visible
  • man in tuxedo, seated right, clapping visible
  • man in tuxedo, seated center-left, clapping visible
  • man in tuxedo, seated center-right, clapping visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a tuxedo stands at the head of a dinner table holding a watch. [frame:1]
  • The man examines the watch closely while seated men applaud. [frame:2]
Also said
“Why, it's beautiful. I never expected to own a watch like this. No, sir, I...” 3:38 · “Well, all I can say is that we've got the best boss in New York. For he's a Johnny Goodfellow, for he's a Johnny Goodfellow, for he's a Johnny Goodfellow, with nobody can deny. Congratulations, old boy. Congratulations. Thank you, Chris. Thank you, my old friend.” 3:47
Seen
watch, dinner table with turkey and glassware, tuxedos, wall paintings
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, celebratory; themes: gratitude, corporate hierarchy, gift-giving; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white, formal framing around the table, studio lighting

A man in a tuxedo examines a watch at a formal dinner table while others applaud; spoken lines thank a boss named J.J. and call him a 'Johnny Goodfellow'. No names are visually confirmed on screen.

“Speed! Speed! Speak up, Chris! Speak up! Come on, Chris! Speed! Well, I, uh...” 3:27 · “I hardly know what you say, J.J. This, uh...” 3:33 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 3:27 (passage 3:26–3:48); US record: No renewal found

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