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Behind Green Lights · Beat 47 · permalink

Private office

31:36–32:33 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; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 31:3731:37Frame at 31:5931:59Frame at 32:2632:26

Play from 31:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 22 · shots 86–88. 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
People
  • man in a light-colored lab coat, standing, holding a small object visible
  • older man with white hair, wearing dark suit, seated at desk writing visible
  • man in light shirt, entering a dark doorway and then walking away visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a lab coat stands holding an object while another man writes at a desk. [frame:1]
  • A man enters a dark doorway. [frame:2]
  • A man in a light shirt walks away from the camera. [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh, my God.” 32:09 · “I'm sorry.” 32:27
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], books [frame:1], wall-mounted light fixture [frame:1], doorway [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: departure, apology, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, studio set

Two men are in an office; one stands holding an object while the other sits at a desk writing. A third man enters a dark doorway and then walks away. The transcript includes repeated statements of intent to leave and an apology.

“I'm going to go.” 31:42 · “I'm going to go.” 32:01 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 31:37 (passage 31:36–32:33); US record: No renewal found

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