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Behind Green Lights · Beat 5 · permalink

Police station

4:06–4:59 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:324:32

Play from 4:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 4–4. 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
  • man in dark suit, fedora, standing left, facing right visible
  • Walter Bard (named at t:4:27): man in dark suit, fedora, standing right, facing left, near podium visible
  • unseen speaker, likely older female voice audible
Seen happening
  • Two men in suits and hats stand near a police station entrance. [frame:1]
Also said
“Precious sakes alive, it's Mr. Bard.” 4:47 · “flowers.” 4:56
Seen
fedora hats [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], police station entrance [frame:1], podium or counter [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful and procedural; themes: crime investigation, mystery, urban noir; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, medium two-shot, static framing, period costume

Two men in suits and hats stand near a police station entrance; one is identified by name as Walter Bard, who runs a private detective agency. A third person, audible but not visible, reacts to Bard's presence and denies knowledge of an incident.

“Well, is this a gag?” 4:09 · “Walter Bard.” 4:27 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 4:32 (passage 4:06–4:59); US record: No renewal found

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