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Behind Green Lights · Beat 50 · permalink

Street

32:37–33:48 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; 1 name 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 33:1333:13

Play from 32:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 91–91. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Time of day
night evidence: frame:1
Period
1940s evidence: film release date (1946)
People
  • man, wearing a white coat and light trousers, standing beside a vehicle visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white coat stands beside a dark vehicle marked 'CITY MORTUARY'. [frame:1]
  • The man appears to be opening or closing the rear door of the vehicle. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • Dialogue indicates a body has disappeared from the ambulance. [t:33:46]
Also said
“The Sith's gone.” 33:36 · “The body must have walked right out of the ambulance.” 33:46
Seen
vehicle [frame:1], white coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful, darkly humorous; themes: disappearance, mortality, bureaucratic absurdity; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing, night exterior shot

A man in a white coat stands beside a dark vehicle marked 'CITY MORTUARY' at night. Dialogue suggests a body has disappeared from the ambulance, with references to a crematorium and a phone call being requested.

“Woodbury crematorium. This one burns, huh?” 33:04 · “Give him an easy ride. It's his last one.” 33:07 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 33:13 (passage 32:37–33:48); US record: No renewal found

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