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Behind Green Lights · Beat 53 · permalink

Private office

34:24–34:39 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 34:2734:27Frame at 34:3334:33Frame at 34:3734:37

Play from 34:24 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 96–98. 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, frame:2, frame:3
People
  • Yeager (named at t:34:25): man, middle-aged, mustache, wearing suit and patterned tie visible, audible
  • Mr. Calvert (named at t:34:31): man, older, balding, wearing dark suit, glasses visible, audible
Also said
“Everything you ask me to.” 34:34 · “You find that body and get rid of it.” 34:35
Seen
telephone, desk, papers, telephone, desk, telephone, desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: corruption, cover-up, authority; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static framing

Two men are shown in separate office settings, each speaking on a telephone. One man, identified by dialogue as Mr. Calvert, is told he must find and dispose of a body.

“Listen, Yeager, this is a pretty serious matter.” 34:25 · “But I did everything I could, Mr. Calvert.” 34:31 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 34:27 (passage 34:24–34:39); US record: No renewal found

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