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A Man Betrayed · Beat 10 · permalink

Private office

6:00–6:13 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:076:07

Play from 6:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 20–20. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a light-colored dress with short sleeves and a belt visible
  • Frank Powell (named at frame:1): man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in an office with a nameplate on the wall. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'll wait here.” 6:12
Seen
nameplate [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
On screen
FRANK POWELL SALES MANAGER
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, transactional; themes: professional hierarchy, waiting, departure; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, 1930s costume design

A man and a woman stand in an interior room; the man says he will get his coat while the woman says she will wait. The wall behind them displays a nameplate reading 'FRANK POWELL SALES MANAGER'.

“Yes, sir.” 6:00 · “I'll get my coat.” 6:10 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 A Man Betrayed (1936) at 6:07 (passage 6:00–6:13); US record: No renewal found

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