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Behind Green Lights · Beat 60 · permalink

Private office

52:57–54:34 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 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 52:5852:58Frame at 53:0153:01Frame at 53:1053:10Frame at 53:5353:53

Play from 52:57 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 31 · shots 107–111. 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:4
People
  • Flossie (named at t:53:14): woman, older, wearing a dark coat and a hat with a feather, carrying a tray of flowers visible, audible
  • Lieutenant (named at t:53:05): man, middle-aged, wearing a suit and tie, seated at a desk visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Flossie stands in the office holding a tray of flowers while the Lieutenant sits at his desk. [frame:1]
  • The Lieutenant holds a small object and looks at it while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The Lieutenant continues to examine the object while speaking. [frame:3]
  • Flossie stands near the desk as the Lieutenant looks up at her. [frame:4]
Also said
“All I want is the money that Stiff owes me.” 53:23 · “Six o'clock this evening.” 53:38
Seen
tray of flowers [frame:1, frame:4], desk [frame:1, frame:2, frame:3, frame:4], bookshelves [frame:1, frame:4], telephone [frame:1, frame:4], small object held by Lieutenant [frame:2, frame:3], nameplate reading 'T. CARSON LIEUTENANT' [frame:4]
On screen
T. CARSON LIEUTENANT
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and transactional; themes: debt collection, bureaucratic authority, urban crime setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing centered on the desk and characters' faces

A woman named Flossie enters a man's office to demand money owed by someone named Stiff; the man, addressed as Lieutenant, questions her about transactions with Bard and the presence of Dr. Yeager. The setting is an office with bookshelves and a desk, and the conversation reveals a debt and a recent visit to an apartment building.

“Say, is that nutty woman that sells flowers still in the building?” 53:00 · “All right, Flossie, the lieutenant will see you now.” 53:14 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 52:58 (passage 52:57–54:34); US record: No renewal found

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