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A Man Betrayed · Beat 6 · permalink

Private office

3:16–4:48 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 3:493:49Frame at 4:234:23Frame at 4:314:31Frame at 4:424:42

Play from 3:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 5 · shots 9–12. 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
  • Frank (named at t:4:23): man in light-colored suit, white shirt, tie, slicked-back hair, medium build visible, audible
  • Hayden (named at t:3:28): man in dark suit or clerical attire, dark hair, medium build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Frank stands and gestures toward Hayden while speaking. [frame:3]
  • Frank and Hayden face each other closely, engaged in conversation. [frame:4]
Also said
“Wait a minute. You can't escape the laws of retribution, Frank.” 4:23 · “Why, of course. And when the first will comes in, I'm getting married.” 4:38
Seen
bookshelf, armchair, framed picture, metal tower structure, suit, dark clerical-style coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: moral conflict, business ethics, personal accountability; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

Two men converse in a room with bookshelves and a metal structure; one, in a suit, speaks about a business venture and his personal investment, while the other, in dark attire, questions its ethics. The dialogue references a jungle, cannibals, and a fiancée named Cadiz.

“When did you get back to civilization?” 3:30 · “I see you stayed one jump ahead of them. Or are you too tough to make a good stew? Sit down.” 3:39 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 3:49 (passage 3:16–4:48); US record: No renewal found

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