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Behind Green Lights · Beat 39 · permalink

Living room

25:53–26:11 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; 2 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 25:5525:55Frame at 26:0026:00Frame at 26:0326:03Frame at 26:0826:08

Play from 25:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 18 · shots 71–74. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, adult, wearing a trench coat, tie, and fedora hat visible, audible
  • Nora (named at t:26:02): woman, adult, wearing a beret and collared jacket visible, audible
Seen happening
  • The man answers the phone. [frame:1]
  • The woman answers the phone. [frame:2]
  • The man speaks on the phone. [frame:3]
  • The woman listens on the phone. [frame:4]
Also said
“No.” 26:07 · “They've asked me to come down to the station now.” 26:08
Seen
trench coat [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], beret [frame:2], desk lamp [frame:1], flower arrangement [frame:2], rotary telephone [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and concerned; themes: police involvement, urgent phone call, domestic setting under stress; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting with strong shadows, static framing

A man in a trench coat and hat speaks on the phone while a woman in a beret listens on another phone; they are discussing a police request for her to come to the station regarding someone named Walter. The setting is an interior room with a lamp, flowers, and a desk phone.

“Did the police say how it happened, Nora? Or where?” 26:02 · “No, Arthur.” 26:05 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 25:55 (passage 25:53–26:11); US record: No renewal found

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