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A Man Betrayed · Beat 9 · permalink

Private office

5:42–6:00 Registered 1936

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Frame at 5:515:51

Play from 5:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 19–19. 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 in a light suit with a pocket square, medium build, dark hair visible
  • woman in a light dress with a belt, dark hair styled in waves visible
  • man in dark formal attire, holding a hat, standing slightly behind visible
Also said
“Yes, sir.” 5:54 · “Oh, and if you hurry... You'll just have time to make a lemon pie.” 5:58
Seen
desk, hat, chair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: calm and conversational; themes: workplace departure, domestic planning, service interaction; style notes: medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire, static composition

A man in a suit stands with a woman at a desk while another man in dark clothes holds a hat nearby. The dialogue suggests they are discussing leaving work soon and ordering food, including Swiss steak and a lemon pie.

“It's getting near quitting time.” 5:42 · “And could we have some of that famous Swiss steak with nickel-sized biscuits?” 5:50 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 5:51 (passage 5:42–6:00); US record: No renewal found

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