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A Man Betrayed · Beat 16 · permalink

Private office

10:10–10:50 Registered 1936

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Frame at 10:3010:30

Play from 10:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 10 · shots 31–31. 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, holding phone receiver to ear visible, audible
  • man standing left, back to camera, wearing dark suit visible
  • man standing center, profile visible, wearing suit visible
Seen happening
  • Three men are present in an office; one sits at a desk with a phone, two stand nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“Why didn't you try to buy him off?” 10:28 · “We can't stand an investigation at this time.” 10:47
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], window blinds [frame:1], suit (worn by p1, p2, p3) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, financial risk, urgent departure; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, studio set with minimal props

A man sits at a desk speaking on the phone while two others stand nearby; the transcript reveals a message about leaving town and a subsequent conversation about a failed financial gamble. No names are spoken that can be linked to the visible individuals.

“This is Mr. Powell speaking.” 10:11 · “Tell her something has happened that makes it necessary for me to leave town immediately.” 10:13 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 10:30 (passage 10:10–10:50); US record: No renewal found

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