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A Man Betrayed · Beat 17 · permalink

Private office

10:50–11:37 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 10:5110:51Frame at 11:1511:15

Play from 10:50 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 32–33. 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:2
People
  • man in dark suit, holding a glass, standing, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in suit, seated at desk, writing, medium build, appears middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing behind p2, holding a glass, slim build, appears younger visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man stands holding a glass, eyes closed, in an office. [frame:1]
  • A man sits at a desk with papers and a telephone; another man stands behind him holding a glass. [frame:2]
Also said
“means ruin and disgrace to them.” 11:05 · “Come on, Burns. Let's go over the accounts.” 11:13
Seen
glass [frame:1], desk [frame:2], telephone [frame:2], papers [frame:2], blinds [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resigned; themes: moral consequence, financial pressure, personal sacrifice; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast studio lighting, formal attire, period office setting

A man in a suit holds a glass while speaking; another man sits at a desk with papers and a telephone as a third man stands behind him holding a glass. The dialogue suggests a discussion about leaving quickly, financial matters, and personal consequences.

“We might move to a healthier climate.” 10:51 · “I have a wife and family.” 11:03 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 10:51 (passage 10:50–11:37); US record: No renewal found

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