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Behind Green Lights · Beat 44 · permalink

Police station

28:59–30:17 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; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 29:0429:04Frame at 29:4329:43

Play from 28:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 20 · shots 82–83. 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 police uniform, wearing a peaked cap visible
  • man in fedora and suit, seated at desk visible
  • man in suit, back to camera, standing at desk visible
  • older man in suit, seated behind desk, balding visible
  • man in light shirt, seen from behind, gripping bars visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit stands at a police station desk facing an officer and a seated official. [frame:1]
  • A man is seen from behind, gripping the bars of a jail cell. [frame:2]
Also said
“The address, Zachary. You can't do it to me, pal. It's my professional reputation. This is at the Benjamin Hotel, Lieutenant. Give the Phantom one of our private suites. You'll see the judge in the morning. But I've got to go on at 1 a.m.” 29:08 · “Welcome back. Honest, I will. Take him away. But...” 29:20
Seen
police station desk [frame:1], jail cell bars [frame:2], police uniform and cap [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1], wooden cabinet with dials [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: legal processing, confinement, professional obligation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal framing at the desk, confined framing in the cell

A man is processed at a police station desk and then seen behind bars. Dialogue references the Elks, a hotel, and a judge, indicating legal proceedings and a scheduled court appearance.

“What's your address?” 28:59 · “But what about the Elks?” 29:02 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 29:04 (passage 28:59–30:17); US record: No renewal found

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