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Behind Green Lights · Beat 58 · permalink

Private office

43:37–45:38 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; 7 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 44:3844:38

Play from 43:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 103–103. 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
  • man in vest and shirt, seen from back, escorting a woman visible
  • woman in dress and hat, being escorted by p1 visible
  • woman in dress, partially visible on left, seated or crouched visible
  • Nora (named at t:43:50): unseen speaker, likely Nora, recounting events audible
  • Walter (named at t:43:56): unseen speaker, likely Walter, referenced in dialogue mentioned
  • Arthur Templeton (named at t:44:12): unseen speaker, likely Arthur Templeton, referenced in dialogue mentioned
  • Miss Bradley (named at t:44:47): unseen speaker, likely Miss Bradley, referenced in dialogue mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man escorts a woman out of a room while another woman is visible nearby. [frame:1]
Also said
“Then Miss Bradley demanded the papers.” 44:59 · “I got the impression she was covering Walter with a gun.” 45:02
Seen
doorway, wall sconce, framed pictures, hat, dress, vest
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: deception, confrontation, suspicion, death; style notes: medium shot from behind, dim interior lighting, static framing emphasizing departure

A woman recounts entering Walter's apartment after hearing a confrontation, finding him dead after he drank something. A man escorts her out while another woman waits nearby. The transcript reveals a prior argument over divorce and papers, and a possible shooting.

“Well, we were. Nora was there when Bard died.” 43:50 · “I'm in love with Arthur Templeton. We want to get married.” 44:12 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 44:38 (passage 43:37–45:38); US record: No renewal found

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