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A Man Betrayed · Beat 35 · permalink

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27:23–30:54 Registered 1936

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Frame at 29:0729:07Frame at 30:5330:53

Play from 27:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 63–64. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1, t:28:41
People
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, medium build visible
  • woman with hands to face, distressed expression visible
  • Brian (named at t:28:42): man mentioned as 'Brian', described as a cop mentioned
  • Ryan (named at t:29:10): man mentioned as 'Ryan', police officer mentioned
  • Sparks (named at t:29:11): man mentioned as 'Sparks', present with Ryan mentioned
  • Bill Scully (named at t:29:13): man mentioned as 'Bill Scully', new in district mentioned
  • Gabby Holt (named at t:29:21): man mentioned as 'Gabby Holt', escaped prisoner mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two men in suits and hats walk through an interior space. [frame:1]
  • A woman is seen with her hands to her face, appearing distressed. [frame:2]
Also said
“He's my brother, a missionary.” 28:37 · “Hello, Ryan.” 29:10
Seen
fedora hat, suit, handkerchief in breast pocket, woman's face with hands to cheeks, engagement ring (mentioned) [t:28:01], athletic club interior (mentioned) [t:30:13], handcuffs (mentioned) [t:29:53], locker room (mentioned) [t:29:49]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: crime, escape, loyalty, deception; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, period costumes

Two men in suits and hats walk through an interior space while a woman is seen in distress. Dialogue reveals a plot involving a prison escape, a loan on an engagement ring, and a police officer named Ryan questioning someone at an athletic club.

“I thought I was working things out. I've only made them worse. Well, you shouldn't have done it, Curtis.” 27:26 · “Why, that's Marjorie's engagement rent. She gave it to me to raise money to help you.” 28:01 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 29:07 (passage 27:23–30:54); US record: No renewal found

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