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A Man Betrayed · Beat 3 · permalink

Private office

1:25–2:06 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 1:411:41Frame at 1:591:59Frame at 2:042:04

Play from 1:25 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 2 · shots 3–5. 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
  • man in dark suit, holding hat, medium build, dark hair visible, audible
  • woman seated behind desk, light hair, wearing dark dress with white collar visible, audible
  • audience members, backs visible, seated in rows visible
Seen happening
  • A presentation about an oil field is shown to an audience. [frame:2]
  • The man stands in a corridor holding his hat. [frame:3]
Also said
“This is a view of the Amalgamated Oil Company's field to join ours.” 1:57 · “It is one of the largest producing fields in South America.” 2:02
Seen
desk [frame:1], hat [frame:3], oil derricks (on screen) [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: business, corporate presentation, access and permission; style notes: static medium shots, studio lighting, clear separation of foreground and background

A man asks to see Mr. Powell and is directed to a lecture room where a presentation about an oil field is underway. He is later seen standing in a corridor, holding his hat.

“I'd like to see Mr. Powell.” 1:35 · “Certainly if you wish, go right down that corridor. The second door on your right.” 1:43 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 1:41 (passage 1:25–2:06); US record: No renewal found

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