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Behind Green Lights · Beat 22 · permalink

Private office

13:52–14:05 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 13:5313:53Frame at 13:5613:56Frame at 13:5713:57Frame at 14:0114:01

Play from 13:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 34–37. 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, middle-aged, dark hair, wearing a dark suit and tie, seated at a desk visible
  • Calvert (named at t:13:54): man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing a light-colored suit, patterned tie, and fedora, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit sits at a desk with hands clasped. [frame:1]
  • A man in a fedora and patterned tie stands near a doorway. [frame:2]
  • The seated man looks up, still at his desk. [frame:3]
  • The standing man remains in place, looking forward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Well, if this Bradley girl were booked...” 13:58 · “It might please some very important people very much.” 14:00
Seen
desk lamp, wood-paneled wall, fedora hat, framed photo, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: corruption, negotiation under threat, power dynamics; style notes: static medium shots alternating between two characters; high-contrast black-and-white lighting; formal framing with deep focus on interior details

Two men in suits are shown in alternating shots inside a wood-paneled room; one sits at a desk while the other stands near a doorway. Dialogue suggests a negotiation involving a woman named Bradley and unnamed important people who might offer favors in exchange for her arrest.

“I'd like it.” 13:53 · “You know that, Calvert.” 13:54 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 13:53 (passage 13:52–14:05); US record: No renewal found

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