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Behind Green Lights · Beat 30 · permalink

Private office

19:41–20:05 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 19:4419:44Frame at 19:5419:54Frame at 20:0320:03

Play from 19:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 14 · shots 46–48. 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 dark suit, tie, and short hair, mid-30s to 40s, average build visible, audible
  • woman with blonde hair, wearing a dark hat, fur-collared coat, and earrings, 30s, slender visible, audible
Also said
“I guess it does look pretty bad.” 19:53 · “You know what that will do to my father on Tuesday.” 20:02
Seen
desk, telephone, framed pictures, door with glass panel, hat, fur collar
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: accusation and evidence, political consequence, moral dilemma; style notes: medium close-ups and two-shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera framing

A man and a woman confront each other in an office; he accuses her of murder based on fingerprints and motive, and she acknowledges the situation looks bad. He considers arresting her, but she reminds him of the political consequences for her father.

“You sound as if you want to believe I killed Walter Bart.” 19:41 · “Your prints are on the gun.” 19:46 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 19:44 (passage 19:41–20:05); US record: No renewal found

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