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A Man Betrayed · Beat 22 · permalink

Private office

14:49–16:09 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 15:2515:25Frame at 16:0416:04

Play from 14:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 38–39. 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
  • George Richards (named at t:14:49): man in dark suit, holding telephone receiver to ear, indoors visible, audible
  • man in fedora, light suit, bow tie, outdoors near vehicle visible
  • Frank Powell (named at t:16:04): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora stands outdoors near a vehicle. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, this is Mr. Carlton, Briggs.” 15:19 · “Your name's Frank Powell?” 16:04
Seen
telephone receiver, fedora hat, vehicle with partial lettering 'NA'
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: deception, business intrigue, secret meetings; style notes: classic black-and-white studio lighting, medium close-up indoors, outdoor wide shot with natural lighting

A man in a suit speaks on the phone indoors, then another man in a fedora and suit stands outdoors near a vehicle. The transcript includes dialogue about a job, meeting across the street, and a character named Frank Powell.

“This is George Richards.” 14:49 · “Meet me across the street from my office in about 20 minutes.” 14:58 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 15:25 (passage 14:49–16:09); US record: No renewal found

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