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Behind Green Lights · Beat 18 · permalink

Private office

10:19–10:45 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; 2 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 10:2510:25Frame at 10:3810:38

Play from 10:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 10 · shots 26–27. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Miss Bradley (named at t:10:42): woman, blonde hair, wearing a dark hat and fur-collared coat visible, audible
  • man, dark hair, wearing a suit and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
Also said
“I had an appointment with him at his apartment.” 10:39 · “No.” 10:44
Seen
desk [frame:2], hat [frame:1], fur collar [frame:1], suit [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: investigation, suspicion, denial; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, formal composition

A woman identified as Miss Bradley speaks with a man in a formal interior setting about a man who was murdered in his car. She confirms she knew the victim and had an appointment with him that evening.

“You know him?” 10:19 · “In his own car, shot.” 10:26 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 10:25 (passage 10:19–10:45); US record: No renewal found

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