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Behind Green Lights · Beat 13 · permalink

Private office

8:12–8:33 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 8:228:22

Play from 8:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 17–17. 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 seated at desk, wearing suit, smoking cigarette visible
  • older man standing, balding, wearing suit, hand on p1's shoulder visible
Seen happening
  • A man seated at a desk is smoking while another man stands behind him with a hand on his shoulder. [frame:1]
Also said
“Send Brewer in.” 8:25 · “The famous Calvert Luck, my boy.” 8:30
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], cigarette [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: political scandal, media influence, suspicion; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, 1940s office decor

Two men are in an office; one sits at a desk smoking while the other stands behind him. The transcript discusses a girl connected to Luther Bradley and mentions Calvert Luck.

“That girl couldn't be mixed up in this case.” 8:14 · “The daughter of Luther Bradley, the reformed candidate for mayor. Boy, what the Express will do with this.” 8:19 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 8:22 (passage 8:12–8:33); US record: No renewal found

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