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A Man Betrayed · Beat 13 · permalink

Private office

8:51–9:09 Registered 1936

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Frame at 9:009:00

Play from 8:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 25–25. 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 seated at desk, wearing suit and tie, middle-aged, mustache visible
  • man standing left, wearing suit, thin build, clean-shaven visible
  • man standing center-back, wearing suit, heavier build, mustache visible
  • man standing right, wearing dark suit, clean-shaven visible
Seen happening
  • Three men stand around a seated man at a desk in an office. [frame:1]
Also said
“And that you probably try to stir up trouble.” 8:57 · “We'll give this hardy woman her money back if she's not satisfied. That won't satisfy me.” 9:00
Seen
desk, books, inkwell, blinds
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: business dispute, conflict over investment, male-dominated setting; style notes: medium shot, static framing, studio lighting, formal attire

Three men stand around a seated man at a desk in an office; one speaks about not selling stock until seeing a field. No names are established by the transcript for any person.

“I think you're getting yourself all worked up over nothing, Paul.” 8:52 · “Why, certainly.” 8:54 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 9:00 (passage 8:51–9:09); US record: No renewal found

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