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Behind Green Lights · Beat 19 · permalink

Private office

10:45–11:53 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 11:1911:19

Play from 10:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 10 · shots 28–28. 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
  • Lieutenant Carson (named at t:11:09): man, mid-30s to 40s, wearing a suit and tie, standing visible, audible
  • Miss Bradley (named at t:11:05): woman, 20s to 30s, wearing a hat and coat, seated visible, audible
Also said
“A dead body on your doorstep could prove embarrassing for the department too, Lieutenant Carson.” 11:09 · “Do you mind if we take your fingerprints?” 11:15
Seen
wood-paneled walls, framed picture on wall, chair, suit, hat, coat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: authority vs. individual, legal procedure, political implication; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set with wood paneling

A man and a woman are in a room where the man, identified as Lieutenant Carson, requests fingerprints from the woman, who consents. The conversation references a murder, an election, and the woman's father in Washington.

“Suppose you tell me why you went to see him.” 10:45 · “This murder could prove very embarrassing for your father, Miss Bradley.” 11:05 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 11:19 (passage 10:45–11:53); US record: No renewal found

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