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Behind Green Lights · Beat 25 · permalink

Private office

16:57–17:20 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 17:0817:08

Play from 16:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 40–40. 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
  • woman, blonde, wearing a suit and hat, holding a hat in her hands visible
Seen happening
  • A woman stands in a room with a desk and lamp. [frame:1]
Also said
“Very nice birthday.” 17:06
Seen
desk [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], hat [frame:1], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: polite, restrained; themes: social formality, unspoken tension, birthday as a social occasion; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, studio lighting, formal attire

A woman in a suit and hat stands in a room with a desk and lamp; she is offered a drink and responds politely. The transcript includes a comment about a birthday.

“Won't you sit down? I'll fix you a drink. Oh, I really don't care for one. Thank you. Thank you.” 17:02 · “Absolutely.” 17:06 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 17:08 (passage 16:57–17:20); US record: No renewal found

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