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Behind Green Lights · Beat 28 · permalink

Private office

18:02–19:23 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 18:0518:05Frame at 18:4618:46

Play from 18:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 43–44. 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, wearing a light shirt and dark vest, balding visible, audible
  • Miss Bradley (named at t:18:11): woman, young adult, blonde hair in a bun, wearing a tailored suit and hat, holding a small handgun visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room. [frame:1]
  • The woman holds a handgun and turns away from the man. [frame:2]
Also said
“Now, give me that envelope.” 18:26 · “Burned it as soon as I got home. What was in it?” 19:07
Seen
handgun [frame:2], suit [frame:2], hat [frame:2], desk [frame:2], lamp [frame:2], window [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: interrogation, deception, power struggle; style notes: medium close-ups, high-contrast lighting, static camera, period costume

A man and a woman confront each other in a room; the woman holds a gun and is questioned about an envelope and a gun she claims to have disposed of. The dialogue reveals suspicion, a prior incident involving a man named Chis, and an attempt to extract information about incriminating contents.

“I suppose it would be useless to appeal to your sense of decency.” 18:04 · “And I've been called all the names, Miss Bradley.” 18:11 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 18:05 (passage 18:02–19:23); US record: No renewal found

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