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A Man Betrayed · Beat 21 · permalink

Private office

13:29–14:49 Registered 1936

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Frame at 14:0914:09

Play from 13:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 37–37. 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
  • Tony Marocco (named at t:14:48): hands visible, wearing dark suit sleeve and white shirt cuff, handling cash and paper on desk visible, audible
  • not visible, voice heard audible
Seen happening
  • A man's hands count cash on a desk. [frame:1]
Also said
“Murder.” 14:03 · “This is Tony Marocco.” 14:48
Seen
cash [frame:1], desk [frame:1], paper [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: crime, insurance fraud, corruption; style notes: tight close-up on hands and desk, high contrast lighting, typical of 1930s noir

Two men discuss a life insurance payout tied to a violent death, referencing a past fight and a payment of two thousand dollars. One man, identified as Tony Marocco, is present during the exchange.

“He carried $100,000 life insurance made out to the firm.” 13:46 · “It pays double for violent death.” 13:56 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 14:09 (passage 13:29–14:49); US record: No renewal found

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