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Scarlet Street · Beat 98 · permalink

Private office

1:03:05–1:03:58 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:251:03:25Frame at 1:03:521:03:52

Play from 1:03:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 40 · shots 239–240. 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
  • woman, dark hair, wearing a light blouse with puffed sleeves and dark skirt visible
  • Mr. Prince (named at t:63:43): man, medium build, wearing a suit and bow tie, holding a glass visible, audible
  • Mr. Christ (named at t:63:43): man, medium build, wearing a suit, entering the room visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a glass and gestures toward a painting on an easel while speaking to a woman. [frame:1]
  • A man enters the room and speaks to the first man. [frame:2]
Also said
“I hope you don't mind my looking at your picture.” 63:50 · “Fine work, that. Remarkable painting. You have a little trouble with perspective, don't you?” 63:55
Seen
painting on easel, glass, suit, bow tie, light blouse with puffed sleeves, dark skirt, suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: artistic critique, social intrusion, identity; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, static camera

A man and a woman are in a room with a painting on an easel; the man examines the painting while speaking. Another man enters and addresses the first man by name, commenting on the painting's perspective.

“Oh, hello, Mr. Christ.” 63:43 · “I just dropped in. I thought Molly was here.” 63:46 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 1:03:25 (passage 1:03:05–1:03:58); US record: No renewal found

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