Private office

42:58–43:03 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.

43:01

Play from 42:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 102–102. 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 wearing dark suit and fedora, medium build, seen from back and side visible

Seen

fedora [frame:1], window with blinds [frame:1], framed picture on wall [frame:1], small object on windowsill [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: isolation, observation; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a suit and fedora stands beside a window with blinds, looking out. The room contains a framed picture and a small object on the windowsill.

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 43:01 (passage 42:58–43:03); US record: No renewal found

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Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/A_Man_Betrayed_movie/b58"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/A_Man_Betrayed_movie/0102.webp" alt="Frame from A Man Betrayed (1936) at 43:01 (passage 42:58–43:03); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>A Man Betrayed (1936), 42:58–43:03. Internet Archive copy A_Man_Betrayed_movie; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "A Man Betrayed (1936), 42:58–43:03", https://publicreel.org/moment/A_Man_Betrayed_movie/b58, from Internet Archive item A_Man_Betrayed_movie, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Private office

Evidence and details

The record

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