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Behind Green Lights · Beat 52 · permalink

Private office

33:59–34:24 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; 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 34:0934:09Frame at 34:2234:22

Play from 33:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 94–95. 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
  • middle-aged man, mustache, wearing a suit and patterned tie visible
  • older man, balding, wearing glasses and a dark suit visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit is on the phone at a desk. [frame:1]
  • An older man with glasses is on the phone at a desk. [frame:2]
Also said
“You make 'em call for the truth.” 34:20 · “I want to know who else wants that body.” 34:22
Seen
telephone [frame:1], desk [frame:1], ashtray [frame:1], papers [frame:1], telephone [frame:2], desk [frame:2], papers [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspicion, conspiracy, telephone conversation; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, period office decor

Two men in suits are shown separately on the phone in an office setting; one is younger with a mustache, the other older with glasses. The transcript reveals a conversation about a body named Bard and suspicion of betrayal.

“Oh, so somebody else wants Bard's body, huh?” 34:08 · “Ah, that crew must be double crossing you. They must know how that body was taken out of the ambulance.” 34:13 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 34:09 (passage 33:59–34:24); US record: No renewal found

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