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A Man Betrayed · Beat 32 · permalink

Living room

24:35–24:53 Registered 1936

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Frame at 24:3824:38Frame at 24:4724:47

Play from 24:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 20 · shots 59–60. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
People
  • man, dark hair, wearing a dark high-collared coat or shirt visible
  • woman, dark hair styled up, wearing a dark dress with a light collar visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The woman holds out the ring toward the man near a lamp. [frame:2]
Also said
“Here's my engagement ring.” 24:43 · “We can raise some money on it.” 24:45
Seen
engagement ring [frame:2], lamp with patterned shade [frame:2], door frame [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and desperate; themes: sacrifice, financial distress, romantic commitment under pressure; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting with a key light from the lamp, intimate framing

A woman offers her engagement ring to a man, suggesting they can raise money on it. The man listens as she holds out the ring near a lamp in a dimly lit room.

“You mean you still believe he has a chance?” 24:36 · “Yes, more than ever.” 24:38 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 24:38 (passage 24:35–24:53); US record: No renewal found

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