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A Man Betrayed · Beat 47 · permalink

Creek

37:03–37:19 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 37:1137:11

Play from 37:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 29 · shots 80–80. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
creek (other, exterior) evidence: t:37:10
People
  • man wearing overalls and a hat, older, medium build visible, audible
  • man in turtleneck sweater, younger, dark hair visible
  • woman with light hair, partially visible visible
Seen
overalls, hat, turtleneck sweater, trees
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict, suggestion of violence, rural setting; style notes: medium shot, outdoor lighting, natural setting with trees, black-and-white film grain

A man in overalls suggests throwing someone in a creek while speaking to two others outdoors. No names are spoken, and the setting appears to be near a creek with trees visible.

“Where can I get some water?” 37:08 · “Well, you might throw her in the creek right over there.” 37:10 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 37:11 (passage 37:03–37:19); US record: No renewal found

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