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Behind Green Lights · Beat 62 · permalink

Private office

54:46–56:04 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; 3 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 55:2555:25

Play from 54:46 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 32 · shots 113–113. 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 wearing hat and coat, silhouetted visible
  • unseen, but audible audible
  • Doc (named at t:55:37): unseen, but audible audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat and coat stands in a doorway. [frame:1]
Mentioned
  • A man fumbles with a key at a door. [t:54:54]
  • The man enters the room and shuts the door. [t:55:11]
  • The man is described as scared. [t:55:19]
Also said
“Doc, come into my office again, will you? Okay.” 55:37 · “You can always tell a gentleman by the way he treats a lady.” 55:45
Seen
door [frame:1], key [t:54:54], hat [frame:1], coat [frame:1], railing [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and suspenseful; themes: fear, secrecy, social class; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, silhouetted figures, tight framing on doorway

A man in a hat and coat fumbles with a key at a door, enters, and is later asked to wait in an office. Someone requests financial reimbursement and comments on gentlemanly behavior.

“He could hardly find the keyhole his hand was shaking so.” 54:54 · “still acted like he was scared of his own shadow.” 55:19 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 55:25 (passage 54:46–56:04); US record: No renewal found

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