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Behind Green Lights · Beat 49 · permalink

Private office

32:35–32:37 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 32:3632:36

Play from 32:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 90–90. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • older man, balding, wearing dark suit, seated at desk visible
  • man, wearing light-colored lab coat, standing visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a lab coat hands papers to a seated man at a desk. [frame:1]
Seen
desk [frame:1], papers [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], bookshelf with bottles [frame:1], wall-mounted lamp [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, dismissal, bureaucracy; style notes: medium shot, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of 1940s noir

Two men are in an office; one hands documents to the other who is seated at a desk. The standing man is told to leave after receiving the papers.

“Here, that's all you need. Now get going.” 32:36 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 32:36 (passage 32:35–32:37); US record: No renewal found

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