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A Man Betrayed · Beat 15 · permalink

Private office

9:26–10:10 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 9:499:49

Play from 9:26 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 9 · shots 30–30. 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, middle-aged, heavyset, wearing dark suit visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit stands near a doorway, holding a phone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
Also said
“Make a reservation right away. Frank Powell.” 9:57 · “Get me circle, three, four, seven hundred.” 10:04
Seen
telephone receiver, doorway
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and procedural; themes: communication under pressure, travel arrangements, business protocol; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s studio production

A man in a dark suit stands near a doorway, speaking on the phone. He arranges a flight reservation to Miami and then calls for someone named Miss Norton.

“That goes for you, too, gentlemen.” 9:27 · “Get me South American Airways.” 9:36 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 9:49 (passage 9:26–10:10); US record: No renewal found

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