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Behind Green Lights · Beat 12 · permalink

Private office

7:40–8:12 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 7:417:41Frame at 7:567:56Frame at 8:118:11

Play from 7:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 14–16. 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, frame:2
People
  • Sam (named at t:7:42): man in dark suit and tie, seated at desk, holding paper visible, audible
  • Doc (named at t:7:41): older man with glasses, wearing dark coat, standing visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Sam sits at a desk holding a paper while Doc stands nearby. [frame:1]
  • Doc speaks to Sam while standing in the office. [frame:2]
  • A close-up shows a handwritten note dated January 17 with the name Janet Bradley and time 10:30 P.M. [frame:3]
Also said
“There were plenty of powder burns, Sam. Could have been suicide.” 7:52 · “Not a chance, Doc. The boys at the desk would have heard the shot.” 7:55
Seen
desk, typewriter, notebook, pen, lamp, framed photo
On screen
{'frame': 3, 'value': 'JANUARY 17\nJanet Bradley\n10:30 P.M.\nJANUARY'}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: crime investigation, suspicion, official corruption; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, close-up on document for emphasis

Two men discuss a shooting in an office; one examines a document while the other stands nearby. A close-up shows a handwritten note dated January 17 with a name and time.

“Come in, Doc.” 7:41 · “Here it is, Sam.” 7:42 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 7:41 (passage 7:40–8:12); US record: No renewal found

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