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A Man Betrayed · Beat 71 · permalink

Railway track

52:16–52:46 Registered 1936

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Frame at 52:3152:31

Play from 52:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 125–125. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railway_track (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man lying on ground, wearing dark suit and hat visible
  • man standing behind p1, wearing dark suit and hat visible
  • man crouching to right, wearing light suit and fedora visible
  • man crouching to left, wearing dark suit and hat visible
Seen happening
  • Four men are positioned around a railway track, one lying down, others crouching or standing. [frame:1]
Seen
railway tracks [frame:1], men's suits and hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, crime, loyalty; style notes: black-and-white, low-angle shot on railway tracks, dramatic lighting

Four men are on a railway track; one is lying down while others stand or crouch nearby. A line spoken at 52:26 refers to someone being told to 'call me a fight' after being 'a rock out of jail.'

“Well, it was a swell idea anyhow.” 52:21 · “I told him a rock out of jail. Don't forget to call me a fight.” 52:26 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 52:31 (passage 52:16–52:46); US record: No renewal found

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