Public Reel

A Man Betrayed · Beat 5 · permalink

Theatre

2:32–3:16 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 2:412:41Frame at 3:033:03

Play from 2:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 7–8. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in a light-colored suit, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
  • audience members, mostly men in suits, seated visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit walks toward the stage from the back of the theatre. [frame:1]
  • The man stands on stage facing the audience, speaking. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now, this is not a fly-by-night sales promotion scheme.” 2:50 · “Our individual small sums become a collective giant who will open up the gates of opportunity and happiness” 3:06
Seen
theatre seats [frame:1], stage [frame:2], projection screen [frame:1], wall sconces [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, persuasive; themes: collective investment, public persuasion, theatrical presentation; style notes: medium and wide shots, stage lighting focused on speaker, audience in shadow, classic 1930s theatrical framing

A man in a suit addresses an audience from a stage in a theatre, speaking about a collective investment opportunity. The audience is seated in rows, watching him.

“That, ladies and gentlemen, concludes our picture.” 2:44 · “But before you go, there's just one thing more I'd like to say to you.” 2:46 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.

Share

Paste the permalink anywhere that shows link previews and it carries the frame, the time and the finding. The card image can be saved and used with a credit.

Frame from A Man Betrayed (1936) at 2:41 (passage 2:32–3:16); US record: No renewal found

Permalink
always the current cut
Permalink to this version
warns if the beats are recut later
Card image
https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/A_Man_Betrayed_movie/b5.png
Figure for a newsletter or page
Cite