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A Man Betrayed · Beat 24 · permalink

Jail

18:03–18:39 Registered 1936

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Frame at 18:2118:21

Play from 18:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 42–42. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
jail (jail, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing dark clerical collar, visible behind wire mesh visible, audible
Also said
“You must have faith.” 18:20 · “Faith. Faith. How much faith would you have if you were in my place? If they were taking you to prison?” 18:24
Seen
wire mesh screen, clerical collar
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and despairing; themes: faith under trial, imprisonment, justice vs. vengeance; style notes: close-up shot behind barrier, high-contrast lighting, black-and-white film

A man in a dark clerical collar is seen behind a wire mesh screen, speaking about faith and imprisonment. The transcript reveals a conversation about proving innocence, insurance investigators, and the emotional toll of facing prison.

“The insurance company investigators and private detectives are working on that angle now. If I could get out of here for a no, I'd prove it.” 18:07 · “I'd make them confess and I'd blow their heads off. Take it easy, boy.” 18:13 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 18:21 (passage 18:03–18:39); US record: No renewal found

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