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A Man Betrayed · Beat 56 · permalink

Private office

42:06–42:27 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 42:1642:16

Play from 42:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 100–100. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing a suit and fedora visible
  • man with mustache, wearing a suit and fedora visible
  • man in dark suit and fedora, speaking, with white pocket square visible, audible
Also said
“There were only two. I had one and the manager the other.” 42:17 · “Believe me, the guy that opened this door was an expert.” 42:20
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], suits [frame:1], pocket square [frame:1], lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: mystery, crime investigation, security; style notes: medium close-up, studio lighting, formal attire, static framing

Three men in suits and hats stand indoors, discussing a lock and keys related to a killing. One man states that only two keys existed, held by him and the manager, and claims the door was opened by an expert.

“What kind of a lock is it?” 42:08 · “Bloody tough.” 42:10 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 42:16 (passage 42:06–42:27); US record: No renewal found

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