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Behind Green Lights · Beat 59 · permalink

Police station

45:38–52:57 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; 12 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 47:4547:45Frame at 49:5949:59Frame at 51:3251:32

Play from 45:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 104–106. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Nora (named at t:45:55): woman wearing a dark hat and coat, light-colored hair, mid-30s, average build visible, audible
  • Lieutenant Carson (named at t:49:15): man in dark suit, seen from behind or in profile, mid-40s, average build visible, audible
  • woman with dark hat and light hair, visible in close-up, mid-30s visible
  • man in dark suit, seen from behind, mid-40s visible
  • Flossie (named at t:49:15): woman named Flossie, mentioned in dialogue, no visual mentioned
  • Biddle (named at t:49:47): man named Biddle, mentioned in dialogue, no visual mentioned
  • Max Calvert (named at t:51:31): man named Max Calvert, mentioned in dialogue, no visual mentioned
  • Luther Bradley (named at t:51:24): man named Luther Bradley, mentioned in dialogue, no visual mentioned
  • Walter Bart (named at t:51:27): man named Walter Bart, mentioned in dialogue, no visual mentioned
  • Johnny Bradley (named at t:49:01): man named Johnny Bradley, mentioned in dialogue, no visual mentioned
  • Bard (named at t:45:39): man named Bard, mentioned in dialogue, no visual mentioned
  • Todd (named at t:45:50): man named Todd, mentioned in dialogue, no visual mentioned
Seen happening
  • A figure is seen carrying a body down a dark staircase. [frame:1]
  • A woman in a hat stands in an office with a map on the wall. [frame:2]
  • A woman in a hat speaks to a man in a suit. [frame:3]
Also said
“Bard didn't die of a gunshot. He was poisoned.” 50:40 · “Or because I'm Luther Bradley's daughter.” 51:27
Seen
body being carried, staircase with iron railing, woman's hat and coat, map on wall, woman's hat with feather, man's suit
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: deception, legal jeopardy, protecting others through crime; style notes: high-contrast noir lighting, medium close-ups, static framing emphasizing dialogue

A character recounts moving a body and staging a scene to protect Nora, while another character is questioned about poisoning. The final frames show a woman in a hat being addressed by a man in an office setting.

“I went to see Bart for the same reason Nora did. I thought perhaps I could get him to change his mind about the divorce.” 45:55 · “Get the body out of the place.” 47:03 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 47:45 (passage 45:38–52:57); US record: No renewal found

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