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A Man Betrayed · Beat 36 · permalink

Private office

30:54–32:17 Registered 1936

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Frame at 31:3631:36

Play from 30:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 65–65. 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
  • older man, wearing a fedora, suit, and patterned tie, with a white pocket square visible, audible
  • younger man, wearing a dark fedora and double-breasted suit with a boutonniere visible, audible
Also said
“We gotta get Mish away from Ryan.” 31:29 · “If he gets knocked cold, he can't answer Ryan's questions. Okay.” 31:36
Seen
fedora hats, suits, patterned tie, white pocket square, boutonniere
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, planned violence, urban crime; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s studio production

Two men in suits and hats converse in an indoor setting; one is instructed to enter a boxing ring with another named Roundhouse. The dialogue suggests a plan to incapacitate someone named Mish to prevent him from answering questions.

“Well, did you find anything? Yeah, a hairpin.” 31:07 · “You're new around here, aren't you? Yeah. Where are you from?” 31:20 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 31:36 (passage 30:54–32:17); US record: No renewal found

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