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A Man Betrayed · Beat 52 · permalink

Private office

39:51–40:25 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 40:0840:08

Play from 39:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 88–88. 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 fedora, suit, and tie, mid-adult, medium build visible, audible
  • man in suit, seen from side, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Mitch (named at t:39:55): not visible mentioned
  • Key (named at t:40:18): not visible mentioned
Seen happening
  • Two men are talking in an office. [frame:1]
Also said
“He sure gets a kick out of saving souls.” 40:09 · “That's Key. Let him come in.” 40:18
Seen
fedora hat, suit and tie, door, wall-mounted picture
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, conversational, with undertones of admiration and irony; themes: redemption, management vs. calling, friendship, unplanned visit; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, static camera, classic 1930s film framing

Two men converse in an interior space; one mentions a fighter named Mitch and expresses admiration for his preaching. A third person, Key, is announced to be arriving with someone else.

“Hiya, kid. How you feeling? I'm all right. How's Mitch?” 39:55 · “Say, and what a fighter he is. If he'd only quit preaching and let me manage him...” 40:01 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 40:08 (passage 39:51–40:25); US record: No renewal found

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