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A Man Betrayed · Beat 59 · permalink

Hotel lobby

43:03–43:27 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 43:0643:06Frame at 43:1743:17Frame at 43:2643:26

Play from 43:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 103–105. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man in suit, vest, tie, and fedora, kneeling beside couch visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing with hands on hips visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing behind p2 visible
  • man in suit and fedora, standing by door 203 visible
Seen happening
  • A man kneels beside a couch examining an object. [frame:1]
  • Three men in suits and hats stand together in a room. [frame:2]
  • A man stands by a door marked 203. [frame:3]
Also said
“Did you hear the shot?” 43:24 · “That proof, the guy was killed somewhere else and was brought here. Yes, Sid. You can't go wrong if you do what Mish tells me.” 43:26
Seen
couch, round table, door with number 203, fedora hats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: crime scene investigation, suspicion, cover-up; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire suggesting 1930s setting

A man in a suit and fedora examines an object near a couch while two other men in suits and hats stand nearby; a third man is seen standing by a door marked 203. Dialogue suggests a shot was heard and a body was moved to the location.

“Nobody heard that? That's right.” 43:10 · “Well, maybe they couldn't with the door closed” 43:12 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 43:06 (passage 43:03–43:27); US record: No renewal found

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