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Behind Green Lights · Beat 57 · permalink

Living room

41:29–43:37 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 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 42:3342:33

Play from 41:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 30 · shots 102–102. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Nora (named at t:42:47): woman, dark dress, styled hair, standing visible, audible
  • Arthur (named at t:42:26): man, suit, standing, facing woman visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room, appearing to have a serious conversation. [frame:1]
Also said
“No, we've got to sit tight. If we do, we'd never trust each other again, Arthur. There'd always be that doubt. It'd grow and keep on growing. In the end, it'd break us apart.” 42:30 · “I'm not sure of him.” 42:47
Seen
curtains [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], sofa [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, distrustful; themes: marital distrust, legal consequences, moral dilemma; style notes: medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal framing, 1940s costume design

A man and a woman have a tense conversation in a room with curtains and a lamp; the transcript reveals they are discussing a body mistakenly taken, a police investigation, and their mutual distrust. The woman insists they must go to the police station to tell the truth, while the man initially resists, fearing it will destroy their relationship.

“Well, Bart's body must have been picked up by mistake. That's the only way it could have happened.” 41:32 · “Arthur, we've got to go to the police station and tell them the truth.” 42:26 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 42:33 (passage 41:29–43:37); US record: No renewal found

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