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A Man Betrayed · Beat 38 · permalink

Private office

32:52–33:34 Registered 1936

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Frame at 33:1333:13

Play from 32:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 67–67. 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 wearing fedora and suit, holding telephone receiver visible, audible
  • man standing behind p1, wearing suit, leaning forward visible
  • man seated, face heavily bandaged, wearing suit visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora holds a telephone receiver while two others stand behind him; one is bandaged. [frame:1]
Also said
“He broke his jaw.” 33:14 · “Listen, I'm telling you this because I'm calling off that four grand back.” 33:22
Seen
telephone receiver, fedora hat, bandages on face, suit jackets
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: betrayal, conflict, deception; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, period costumes

A man in a fedora holds a telephone receiver while two others stand behind him; one is bandaged. The transcript reveals a conversation about a canceled fight and a bet being called off.

“Hello, Tony.” 33:02 · “Brownhouse can't fight on the 15th.” 33:11 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 33:13 (passage 32:52–33:34); US record: No renewal found

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