Public Reel

A Man Betrayed · Beat 18 · permalink

Private office

11:37–12:11 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 11:5411:54

Play from 11:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 10 · shots 34–34. 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
People
  • man in dark suit, tie, vest, and light shirt; middle-aged, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man stands with head slightly bowed, hands at sides, in a room with blinds and a side table. [frame:1]
Also said
“Amen.” 11:55 · “Oh, my God.” 12:02
Seen
blinds [frame:1], side table with bottles and glasses [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], tie and vest [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, somber; themes: regret, prayer, emotional distress; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, minimal set design

A man in a suit stands in a room with blinds and a side table; he appears distressed as he speaks. The transcript includes exclamations and a prayer, suggesting emotional tension.

“I'm sorry.” 11:38 · “Oh, my God.” 11:45 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from A Man Betrayed (1936) at 11:54 (passage 11:37–12:11); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/A_Man_Betrayed_movie/b18.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite