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Behind Green Lights · Beat 4 · permalink

Police station

3:38–4:06 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; 3 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 3:523:52

Play from 3:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 3 · shots 3–3. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • unseen, audible only audible
  • Johnny Williams (named at t:3:57): unseen, audible only audible
  • Burris Archer (named at t:3:57): unseen, audible only audible
Seen
car, building facade, street lamps
On screen
POLICE
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and formal; themes: journalism, law enforcement, interruption; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, symmetrical framing of building entrance, static camera

A car is parked outside a building with 'POLICE' lettering above the doors. A voice introduces Johnny Williams of the Herald and mentions Burris Archer while urging haste.

“You take all day. Come on, will you? Hurry. Boys, meet Johnny Williams of the Herald. This is what you tell me. I have no city news, Burris Archer. Don't get up, gentlemen.” 3:57 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 3:52 (passage 3:38–4:06); US record: No renewal found

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