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Behind Green Lights · Beat 32 · permalink

Private office

20:08–20:27 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 20:1220:12Frame at 20:1620:16Frame at 20:2120:21Frame at 20:2420:24

Play from 20:08 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 50–54. 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, frame:2
People
  • woman, blonde, wearing a dark hat and fur stole, formal coat visible, audible
  • Lieutenant (named at t:20:09): man, dark hair, wearing a dark suit, tie, and pocket square, seated visible, audible
Also said
“I'm a policeman, not a politician.” 20:21 · “I've always liked policemen.” 20:25
Seen
dark hat, fur stole, suit and tie, pocket square, wooden paneling, curtains
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but controlled; themes: duty vs. politics, personal integrity, gendered authority; style notes: medium close-ups, formal framing, high-contrast studio lighting, static camera

A woman and a man in formal attire have a conversation in an office; the man identifies himself as a policeman and rejects political influence. The woman acknowledges his stance and expresses approval.

“I realize the pressure you're under, Lieutenant.” 20:09 · “I've learned a great deal about the police department from father.” 20:12 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 20:12 (passage 20:08–20:27); US record: No renewal found

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