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Behind Green Lights · Beat 51 · permalink

Private office

33:48–33:59 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 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 33:5133:51Frame at 33:5733:57

Play from 33:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 26 · shots 92–93. 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
  • older man, balding, wearing glasses and a dark suit, seated at a desk visible, audible
  • older man, wearing a light-colored shirt, leaning forward over the desk visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit sits at a desk holding a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
  • A second man leans over the first, also holding the telephone receiver. [frame:2]
Also said
“Well...” 33:54
Seen
telephone, desk, papers, curtains, overhead light
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, urgent; themes: investigation, authority, secrecy; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast lighting, studio-bound set

A man in a suit sits at a desk on the phone; another man in a white shirt leans over him, also holding the receiver. The dialogue instructs someone to retrace a route and report if a body is not found.

“Well, go back over your route. Keep your eyes open and your trap shut.” 33:48 · “If you can't find the body, report to me as soon as you get here.” 33:51 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 33:51 (passage 33:48–33:59); US record: No renewal found

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