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A Man Betrayed · Beat 4 · permalink

Private office

2:06–2:32 Registered 1936

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Frame at 2:192:19

Play from 2:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 6–6. 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, dark suit, light shirt, medium build, short dark hair visible, audible
  • partially visible, dark suit, side profile visible
  • partially visible, light hair, side profile visible
Also said
“In a few short months, Our field will bristle with producing wells just like the picture before you.” 2:15 · “I've invested every cent I own in this project.” 2:25
Seen
dark suit [frame:1], light shirt [frame:1], wood-paneled wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: earnest and persuasive; themes: investment, opportunity, convincing an audience; style notes: medium shot, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire, indoor setting

A man in a dark suit speaks to an audience, describing an oil field as a golden opportunity and stating he has invested all his money in it. The scene is indoors, with at least two other people partially visible.

“What an inspiring sight.” 2:06 · “Did you ever see anything more beautiful?” 2:08 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 2:19 (passage 2:06–2:32); US record: No renewal found

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