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Behind Green Lights · Beat 10 · permalink

Private office

6:51–7:38 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:127:12Frame at 7:367:36

Play from 6:51 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 6 · shots 11–12. 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
  • Daniel Boone Wintergreen (named at t:6:57): man wearing a heavy fur coat and a bowler hat, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • Johnny Williams (named at t:7:06): man in a suit and fedora, clean-shaven, middle-aged, medium build visible, audible
  • man in a suit and tie, seated at a desk, holding a pen, middle-aged, medium build visible
Seen happening
  • A man sits at a desk writing with a pen. [frame:2]
Also said
“When will you get rid of that trophy you got on?” 7:13 · “Sir, this buffalo coat belonged to my grandfather, Daniel Boone Wintergreen.” 7:16
Seen
fur coat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], suit and tie [frame:1], desk [frame:2], pen [frame:2], lamp [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly combative; themes: professional rivalry, class distinction, journalism; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, static camera, black-and-white film

Two men meet and exchange greetings in a room; one wears a heavy fur coat and is introduced as Daniel Boone Wintergreen, a police reporter. A third man is later seen alone at a desk, writing with a pen.

“Hey, Dan. Johnny, this is Daniel Boone Wintergreen. He covers police for The Sun. Also has the policy corner on the side.” 6:57 · “Meet Johnny Williams of the Herald. Pleasure to meet you, my boy. I can see that you'll be a welcome contrast to the riffraff that infests this mortuary. Thank you.” 7:06 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 7:12 (passage 6:51–7:38); US record: No renewal found

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