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Behind Green Lights · Beat 63 · permalink

Private office

56:04–56:33 Registered 1946

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:1856:18

Play from 56:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 114–114. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • Doc (named at t:56:07): older man, seated, wearing dark suit and glasses, appears tired visible, audible
  • Sam (named at t:56:20): man standing, wearing dark suit, arms crossed, facing p1 visible, audible
Also said
“Bards death is a lucky break for you, isn't it, Doc?” 56:22 · “Oh, he's got nothing on me.” 56:29
Seen
wood-paneled walls [frame:1], door with glass panels [frame:1], water cooler [frame:1], office chair [frame:1], desk (partially visible) [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and interrogative; themes: professional suspicion, age and fatigue, legal jeopardy; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, typical of 1940s studio interiors

Two men converse in an office; one, seated and older, is called 'Doc' and appears tired, while the other, standing, questions him about a malpractice case and a man named Bard. No names are spoken that identify either man beyond 'Doc' and 'Sam'.

“Come in, Doc.” 56:07 · “You don't look well, Doc.” 56:11 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 56:18 (passage 56:04–56:33); US record: No renewal found

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