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A Man Betrayed · Beat 53 · permalink

Private office

40:25–40:32 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 40:2840:28

Play from 40:25 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 89–89. 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, slicked-back hair, holding a woman's arm visible
  • woman in dark dress, dark hat, being kissed visible
  • man in suit and fedora, adjusting his hat, mustache visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing behind p3, partially visible visible
Seen happening
  • A man kisses a woman while two other men watch. [frame:1]
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], dark suit [frame:1], dark dress [frame:1], door [frame:1], framed picture [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or dramatic; themes: interruption, confrontation, romantic gesture; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, static framing, 1930s costume design

A man in a suit kisses a woman in a dark dress while two other men observe; one of the men is adjusting his hat. The transcript includes the word 'Margarine' and a call of 'Frank!' at 40:26.

“Margarine. Frank!” 40:26 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 40:28 (passage 40:25–40:32); US record: No renewal found

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