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A Man Betrayed · Beat 14 · permalink

Private office

9:09–9:26 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 9:119:11Frame at 9:149:14Frame at 9:189:18Frame at 9:249:24

Play from 9:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 26–29. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • Powell (named at t:9:16): man with mustache, wearing dark suit and tie, seated visible, audible
  • Colton (named at t:9:19): man in dark suit and tie, standing, holding glass visible, audible
  • man in light suit, standing behind seated man visible
Also said
“I've known you a long time, Colton.” 9:19 · “You'll pay for it.” 9:25
Seen
glass [frame:2], blinds [frame:1, frame:2, frame:4], painting [frame:2], door [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, loyalty, threat, business pressure; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set with minimal props

Two men in suits are in an office; one seated, one standing, discussing a trip and a sales campaign. One man, addressed as Powell, refuses to wait and threatens consequences if there is wrongdoing.

“We can't spare you right now, Powell.” 9:16 · “I'm not waiting for anything.” 9:17 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 9:11 (passage 9:09–9:26); US record: No renewal found

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