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Behind Green Lights · Beat 33 · permalink

Police station

20:27–21:52 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; 10 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 20:5820:58Frame at 21:3021:30Frame at 21:4621:46Frame at 21:5021:50

Play from 20:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 55–59. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in fedora and suit, standing, gesturing visible
  • man in suit, seated at table, facing p1 visible
  • man in suit, seated at table, holding phone visible
  • man in suit, seated, listening on phone visible
  • man in suit, standing in doorway visible
  • Doc (named at t:20:55): man in suit, seated, holding phone visible
  • Kelly (named at t:21:01): man in suit, seated, holding phone visible
  • Charlie (named at t:21:42): man in suit, seated, holding phone visible
  • Mr. Jones (named at t:21:42): man in suit, seated, holding phone visible
  • Costner (named at t:21:42): man in suit, seated, holding phone visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora gestures while speaking to others seated at a table. [frame:1]
  • A man in a fedora speaks animatedly with hands open. [frame:2]
  • A man in a fedora holds a phone receiver to his ear. [frame:3]
  • A man in a pinstripe suit holds a phone receiver to his ear while looking down. [frame:4]
Also said
“Yeah, but what you don't know is that Janet Bradley, Luther's daughter, is mixed up in the case. No. That's right. Carson has her downstairs now.” 21:07 · “She was in Bard's apartment this evening, but she gives a perfectly logical reason for being there. Well, that's good enough for the front page. I'd go slow on any insinuations if I were you fellas.” 21:34
Seen
fedora hat, suit, table, phone receiver, typewriter, desk lamp, pinstripe suit, phone receiver, hat on floor
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: crime investigation, media and police interaction, suspicion and revelation; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, studio lighting, focused on character interactions

A group of men in a police station discuss a murder case involving Janet Bradley, with one man on the phone relaying information. The scene includes a man in a fedora speaking animatedly and another man listening on the phone.

“I should book you.” 20:29 · “If you don't mind waiting a little longer...” 20:32 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 20:58 (passage 20:27–21:52); US record: No renewal found

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