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Behind Green Lights · Beat 1 · permalink

Police station

0:00–3:18 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 7 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:391:39

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Evidence and details

Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Johnny Williams (named at t:2:34): unspecified, referred to as Johnny Williams audible, mentioned
  • Lieutenant Carson (named at t:2:34): unspecified, referred to as Lieutenant Carson audible, mentioned
  • Sergeant Oppenheimer (named at t:2:34): unspecified, referred to as Sergeant Oppenheimer audible, mentioned
  • Miss Bradley (named at t:1:29): unspecified, referred to as Miss Bradley audible, mentioned
  • Sam (named at t:2:34): unspecified, referred to as Sam audible, mentioned
  • Carey (named at t:2:31): unspecified, referred to as Carey audible, mentioned
  • Ames (named at t:2:57): unspecified, referred to as Ames audible, mentioned
Also said
“Only the truth is kept to print.” 2:55 · “It's your first day on the police run, Johnny? Yeah.” 3:00
Seen
clock tower, police station window with bars, street lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: professional and slightly tense; themes: press-police relations, newcomer integration, community property law; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, urban police station setting

A newspaper reporter named Johnny Williams is introduced to police officers in a police station, with dialogue about press relations and community property. The scene includes a clock tower visible through a window, suggesting an urban setting.

“Come in, Miss Bradley.” 1:29 · “Hiya, Sam. Hello, Oppenheimer. Hi. Meet Johnny Williams, the herald's gift to the police department. This is Lieutenant Carson, Sergeant Oppenheimer. Hi, young fella. It's sure nice to meet you guys. You'll love him when you get to know him better.” 2:34 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 Behind Green Lights (1946) at 1:39 (passage 0:00–3:18); US record: No renewal found

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