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A Man Betrayed · Beat 31 · permalink

Private office

22:33–24:35 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 23:3423:34

Play from 22:33 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 19 · shots 58–58. 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
  • boss (named at t:22:44): man in fedora and suit, seated at desk, older, heavyset visible, audible
  • Gabby (named at t:22:49): man in fedora and suit, standing, medium build, younger visible, audible
  • Keyes (named at t:22:54): man in fedora and suit, standing, medium build, wearing patterned tie visible, audible
  • man in fedora and suit, standing, partially obscured, medium build visible, audible
  • Gary (named at t:23:41): man in fedora and suit, standing, medium build, facing away visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The boss returns the gun and says goodbye. [frame:1]
Also said
“Now get out of this town and forget that you've ever been here if you know what's good for you.” 23:25 · “They mustn't give up hope.” 24:34
Seen
desk [frame:1], gun [frame:1], money [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], suits [frame:1], wall picture [frame:1], framed certificate [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: betrayal, power dynamics, exile, moral ambiguity; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal composition with characters arranged around a desk, period costumes and props

A man identified as Gabby is dismissed by his boss after being released from custody; he is given a gun and money and told to leave town. Another man refuses to leave and is offered money for the gun, which he accepts before departing.

“- Hiya, boss. - Here we are.” 22:44 · “You ain't working for me no more, Gabby.” 23:00 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 23:34 (passage 22:33–24:35); US record: No renewal found

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