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Behind Green Lights · Beat 42 · permalink

Private office

28:00–28:42 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; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 28:0128:01Frame at 28:2228:22

Play from 28:00 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 19 · shots 79–80. 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
  • man in dark suit, tie, pocket square, slicked-back hair, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Mrs. Bard (named at t:28:05): woman seated, wearing hat and light coat, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Lieutenant Carson (named at t:28:12): man standing, wearing overcoat, mid-adult visible, audible
  • Oppenheim (named at t:28:35): man partially visible, back to camera, dark suit visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit speaks directly to the camera. [frame:1]
  • A woman sits between two men in a formal room; one man stands facing her, another stands with his back to the camera. [frame:2]
Also said
“You weren't in Bard's apartment at any time during the course of the evening. Mrs. Bard has already answered that question twice before, Carson. Carson?” 28:12 · “I suppose you know I have to ask Mrs. Barr to identify the remains.” 28:31
Seen
wood-paneled walls [frame:1, frame:2], framed picture on wall [frame:2], desk lamp [frame:2], chair [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: interrogation, official procedure, denial of alibi, identification of remains; style notes: medium close-up and medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, formal framing suggesting interrogation

A man in a suit speaks to a seated woman and another man in a formal room; the transcript reveals an interrogation about someone's whereabouts and a request to identify remains. No names are visually confirmed, and the setting appears to be an official office.

“Mrs. Borders had a very difficult time, Lieutenant. Yes, I know.” 28:00 · “Mrs. Bard, uh, you were home all evening?” 28:05 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 28:01 (passage 28:00–28:42); US record: No renewal found

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