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Behind Green Lights · Beat 6 · permalink

Police station

4:59–5:12 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; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 5:035:03Frame at 5:105:10

Play from 4:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 4 · shots 5–6. 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:1
People
  • Sam (named at t:5:08): man wearing fedora hat and overcoat, medium build visible, audible
  • man in hat and coat, partially visible in background visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a fedora is seen indoors near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • The same man is seen outdoors at night, leaning over a vehicle. [frame:2]
Also said
“What have you got?” 5:10 · “What do you think?” 5:11
Seen
fedora hat, overcoat, vehicle, desk
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, procedural; themes: authority, investigation, noir; style notes: high-contrast lighting, medium close-ups, static framing

A man in a fedora and coat is seen indoors, then outdoors at night near a vehicle. Dialogue includes someone calling out to 'Sam' and asking what he has.

“Take this into the desk. Right.” 5:04 · “Hey, Sam!” 5:08 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 5:03 (passage 4:59–5:12); US record: No renewal found

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