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A Man Betrayed · Beat 57 · permalink

Living room

42:27–42:58 Registered 1936

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Frame at 42:4342:43

Play from 42:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 35 · shots 101–101. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in suit and fedora, medium build, standing left visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing center-left visible
  • man in suit and fedora, facing right, holding something small visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing center-right, gesturing toward door visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing right, near door visible
Seen happening
  • Five men stand in a room; one gestures toward a door. [frame:1]
Also said
“And the body was found lying face down behind it.” 42:46 · “The rest of you boys give the apartment the once over. And don't miss nothing.” 42:51
Seen
lamp, door, table, fedora hats, suits
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, investigative; themes: crime scene, investigation, authority; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, staged interior

Five men in suits and hats stand in a dimly lit room with furniture; one man gestures toward a door while others listen. A voice orders lights turned on and directs a search of the apartment after mentioning a body found behind an overturned table.

“Turn on the lights.” 42:30 · “- Is that the only door? - Yes.” 42:38 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 42:43 (passage 42:27–42:58); US record: No renewal found

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