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Behind Green Lights · Beat 9 · permalink

Private office

6:13–6:51 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; 1 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 6:326:32

Play from 6:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 10–10. 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 in suit, mid-30s to 50s, average build, standing, holding papers visible, audible
  • man in suit and fedora, mid-30s to 50s, average build, standing near doorway visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand in an office; one holds papers and faces the other. [frame:1]
Also said
“Lieutenant, I just happened to think. Bart used to hang out at Tony's on 2nd Street quite a lot. Good idea.” 6:34 · “Say, Wilson. Go over there and ask Tony if Bart met anyone there tonight. Then give Oppenheimer a hand if he needs you. Right.” 6:41
Seen
desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], framed photograph [frame:1], papers [frame:1], fedora hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and procedural; themes: investigation, duty, hierarchical command; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast black-and-white lighting typical of 1940s noir, focused on dialogue and character positioning

Two men in suits are in an office; one gives instructions to the other about investigating an apartment and an office. The transcript reveals they are assigning tasks to find evidence and contact people, including calling Bart's wife and checking a bar.

“Oppenheimer, go up to Robard's apartment. Bring back any letters or photographs that might look hot.” 6:15 · “Talk to the janitor and neighbors. Get a line on any recent visitors. Okay, Lieutenant. Harper, you chase up to Bard's office in the equitable building. Go through his desk and files. Check his appointment calendar. Yes, sir.” 6:23 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 6:32 (passage 6:13–6:51); US record: No renewal found

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