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A Man Betrayed · Beat 54 · permalink

Private office

40:32–41:17 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 40:3340:33Frame at 40:3940:39Frame at 40:5740:57Frame at 41:1241:12

Play from 40:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 90–97. 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
  • Sam (named at t:40:34): man in dark suit, fedora, holding telephone receiver visible, audible
  • man in vest and fedora, standing behind p1 visible
  • Spikes (named at t:40:54): man in suit and fedora, talking to p1 on phone audible, mentioned
  • man in suit, standing beside woman in frame:4 visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • Sam hands the phone to another man who speaks with Spikes. [frame:3]
  • Sam, a woman, and another man stand together in conversation. [frame:4]
Also said
“No, no chance, Spikes.” 40:54 · “And it's all your fault.” 41:12
Seen
telephone receiver, wall-mounted light fixture, fedora hats, wooden door
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: crime, legal trouble, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire typical of 1930s crime dramas

A man in a suit and fedora speaks on a telephone while another man stands behind him; later, he talks with a woman and another man. The transcript reveals that a character named Mish has been arrested and is being held without bail, and a lawyer is being contacted.

“This is Sam.” 40:34 · “They've got him in jail.” 40:37 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 40:33 (passage 40:32–41:17); US record: No renewal found

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