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A Man Betrayed · Beat 48 · permalink

Private office

37:19–38:10 Registered 1936

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Frame at 37:3537:35Frame at 38:0038:00

Play from 37:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 81–82. 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 a suit and fedora, seated at a desk visible
  • woman, wearing a suit and hat, walking then seated visible, audible
  • man, wearing a suit, seated at a desk with telephone and books visible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks into an office and approaches a seated man. [frame:1]
  • The woman is seated across from a man at a desk with a telephone and books. [frame:2]
Also said
“He's an Egyptian.” 37:51 · “Say, when a guy carries me four miles in his arms and don't even crack a smile, I'm through.” 38:04
Seen
desk, filing cabinet, armchair, telephone, books, fedora, suit, hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: wry and conversational; themes: romantic disappointment, gender roles, urban office setting; style notes: medium shots, static framing, studio lighting, period costumes

A woman enters an office where a man sits at a desk; she speaks with him while seated. The dialogue suggests she is recounting a failed romantic encounter with someone described as inhuman, comparing him to the Sphinx.

“I came back to get warm. That mish is colder than a cake of ice.” 37:38 · “That's just what I mean. The guy ain't human. I'd rather make love to the Sphinx.” 37:44 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 37:35 (passage 37:19–38:10); US record: No renewal found

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