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Behind Green Lights · Beat 23 · permalink

Private office

14:05–15:11 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; 4 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 14:3814:38

Play from 14:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 11 · shots 38–38. 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 in suit, seen from back, carrying coat and briefcase visible
  • Sam (named at t:14:19): unseen speaker audible
  • William (named at t:15:09): unseen speaker audible
  • Lieutenant (named at t:15:07): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit walks toward a door in an office. [frame:1]
Also said
“I guess he was just about the greatest cop this city ever had. Yeah, I wanted to get him.” 15:03 · “Lieutenant, I've got something to show you.” 15:07
Seen
door with glass panels [frame:1], water cooler [frame:1], framed photo of a police officer [frame:1], desk lamp [frame:1], briefcase [frame:1], coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: corruption, political pressure, police ethics; style notes: medium shot, static camera, studio lighting, black-and-white, mid-century office decor

A man in a suit walks toward a door in an office while two off-screen voices discuss booking a woman until after elections and mention a deceased cop. One speaker addresses 'Sam' and 'William', and another person is called 'Lieutenant'.

“There isn't a particle of evidence against her.” 14:05 · “Do that and you'll have a grand jury investigation right in your lap. Oh, Sam, now don't look at it that way.” 14:19 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 14:38 (passage 14:05–15:11); US record: No renewal found

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