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A Man Betrayed · Beat 44 · permalink

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36:13–36:34 Registered 1936

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 36:2136:21Frame at 36:3236:32

Play from 36:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 76–77. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
field (field, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • lady (named at t:36:17): woman, lying on grass, wearing dark jacket and light blouse, curly hair visible, audible
  • William (named at t:36:20): man, standing, wearing hat and overalls, holding a tool resembling a shovel or hoe visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman lies on the ground outdoors. [frame:1]
  • A man stands nearby holding a tool. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now beat it, will ya?” 36:29 · “Are you sure you ain't crazy?” 36:32
Seen
tool (possibly shovel or hoe), hat, overalls, dark jacket, light blouse
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: conflict, mental state, gender dynamics; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, natural outdoor lighting, static framing

A woman lies on the ground outdoors while a man stands nearby holding a tool; she tells him to leave and claims to be unconscious. The man questions her mental state as she repeats her demand for him to go away.

“Go away, William. Beat it.” 36:20 · “Are you having a fit? No, I'm not having a fit. I'm unconscious. Can't you see?” 36:23 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 36:21 (passage 36:13–36:34); US record: No renewal found

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