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A Man Betrayed · Beat 50 · permalink

Private office

39:39–39:45 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 39:4239:42

Play from 39:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 30 · shots 86–86. 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 in dark suit and fedora, standing, right side of frame visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, standing, left side of frame visible
  • man in dark suit, bent over desk, head down visible
Seen happening
  • A man leans over a desk while two others stand nearby. [frame:1]
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], small statue of animal [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, threat, office setting; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, black-and-white film

A man leans over a desk while two others stand nearby in a room with a telephone and a small statue. One man is told to jab a knife into the desk.

“Smokey, go ahead and jab your knife in my desk.” 39:42 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 39:42 (passage 39:39–39:45); US record: No renewal found

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