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Behind Green Lights · Beat 29 · permalink

Private office

19:23–19:41 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:3219:32

Play from 19:23 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 45–45. 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 dark hat and fur collar, earrings visible visible
  • Lieutenant (named at t:19:39): man, partially visible, dark hair, side profile visible
Seen happening
  • A woman is shown in close-up facing a man. [frame:1]
Also said
“You go down to his car. He makes a pass at you. You grab his gun, let him have it and scram with the envelope.” 19:31 · “Lieutenant, you...” 19:39
Seen
hat [frame:1], fur collar [frame:1], earrings [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: crime, deception, authority; style notes: close-up framing, high-contrast lighting, studio set

A woman in a hat and fur collar is shown in close-up, facing a man who is partially visible. The transcript describes a plan involving a car, a gun, and an envelope, and ends with the woman addressing a lieutenant.

“Something Calvert could use?” 19:24 · “You couldn't make a deal with them.” 19:28 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 19:32 (passage 19:23–19:41); US record: No renewal found

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