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The Green Glove · Beat 83 · permalink

Hotel lobby

39:52–40:30 Registered 1952

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 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 40:0740:07Frame at 40:2640:26

Play from 39:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 41 · shots 163–164. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hotel_lobby (hotel lobby, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • woman in light-colored dress and hat, seen from back, walking away visible
  • man in dark coat and hat, standing near car, watching woman leave visible
  • man with white hair, seated in car, wearing dark suit visible
  • man in dark uniform and cap, standing near car visible
  • Inspector Foubert (named at t:40:13): unseen speaker audible
Seen happening
  • A woman walks away from a car toward a building entrance. [frame:1]
  • A convertible car drives away from a grand building with a man in uniform standing nearby. [frame:2]
Also said
“Inspector Foubert, one doesn't expect to see you in Monte Carlo. I flew in this morning. I suppose even a policeman can combine business with pleasure. Business? Rather serious business. But I expect we shall meet at the casino. With pleasure.” 40:13
Seen
{'item': 'convertible car', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'convertible car', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'grand building with columns and steps', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'grand building with balconies and entrance steps', 'frame': 2}, {'item': 'man in uniform with cap', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and slightly tense; themes: departure, official business, social setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static framing, high-contrast lighting

A woman departs in a convertible car while a man in a hat watches from the curb; another man stands nearby. An inspector is mentioned as having flown to Monte Carlo for serious business, expecting to meet at the casino.

“Goodbye, darling.” 40:03 · “They call me later. Yes.” 40:09 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 The Green Glove (1952) at 40:07 (passage 39:52–40:30); US record: No renewal found

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