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Behind Green Lights · Beat 38 · permalink

Bedroom

25:28–25:53 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 1 name 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 25:4125:41

Play from 25:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 18 · shots 70–70. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Walter (named at t:25:30): woman wearing a beret and dark jacket, mid-20s to 30s, average build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman adjusts her beret while looking in a mirror. [frame:1]
Also said
“As soon as I'm dressed.” 25:40
Seen
mirror, beret, vase of roses, wall sconce
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: quietly tense; themes: personal separation, preparation, self-presentation; style notes: medium close-up, symmetrical framing with mirror reflection, high-contrast studio lighting

A woman in a beret adjusts her appearance in a mirror while speaking about not having seen Walter recently. She mentions she will be ready as soon as she is dressed.

“Of course, but I haven't seen Walter for several weeks. We haven't been living together.” 25:30 · “Yes.” 25:37 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 25:41 (passage 25:28–25:53); US record: No renewal found

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