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A Man Betrayed · Beat 55 · permalink

Private office

41:17–42:06 Registered 1936

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Frame at 41:1841:18Frame at 41:4241:42

Play from 41:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 34 · shots 98–99. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: t:41:57
People
  • man, mustache, fedora, vest, tie, light shirt visible, audible
  • woman, dark hat, dark coat, light blouse visible
  • man, dark suit, light shirt, pocket square visible
Seen happening
  • A man stands in a doorway. [frame:1]
  • The man talks with a woman and another man. [frame:2]
Also said
“So you are innocent, but it's up to us guys to prove it.” 41:31 · “This is my apartment.” 41:57
Seen
fedora hat, vest, tie, door, picture on wall, dark hat, dark coat, pocket square
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: loyalty, justice, collaborative problem-solving; style notes: medium close-ups, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s noir

A man in a fedora and vest stands in an apartment doorway, then speaks with two others nearby. The transcript reveals a discussion about trading a child, proving innocence, and the police's inability to solve the case.

“Maybe we can trade the kid for him.” 41:17 · “Besides, that'll be letting Mish down. Now get away from me. I've got to think.” 41:21 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 41:18 (passage 41:17–42:06); US record: No renewal found

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