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Behind Green Lights · Beat 16 · permalink

Private office

9:27–9:55 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 9:349:34Frame at 9:489:48

Play from 9:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 8 · shots 23–24. 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
  • Mr. Calvert (named at t:9:41): man in suit, patterned tie, pocket square, smiling, mid-adult visible, audible
  • older man, balding, glasses, dark suit, seated at desk visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Man in suit holds phone to ear and smiles. [frame:1]
  • Older man holds phone receiver to mouth while seated at desk. [frame:2]
Also said
“Oh, I'll be right here, Mr. Calvert. You can count on me.” 9:41 · “Bye-bye.” 9:45
Seen
telephone, desk, telephone, curtains, wood-paneled wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: communication under pressure, trust between characters, professional duty; style notes: medium close-ups, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera

A man in a suit talks on the phone while smiling; another man at a desk holds a phone receiver to his mouth. The dialogue suggests coordination between them, with one named Mr. Calvert.

“Luther Bradley's daughter?” 9:27 · “Look, Doc, you stay there and keep your eyes open.” 9:38 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 9:34 (passage 9:27–9:55); US record: No renewal found

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