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Two Weeks to Live · Beat 51 · permalink

Private office

23:01–23:10 Registered 1943

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Frame at 23:0623:06

Play from 23:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 111–111. 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
People
  • hand holding paper, no visible face or clothing visible
  • Mr. Stroy (named at frame:1): not visible, only named on paper mentioned
  • Dr. J. J. O'Brien (named at frame:1): not visible, only named on paper mentioned
Seen happening
  • A hand holds a medical report showing patient Mr. Stroy's diagnosis. [frame:1]
Seen
medical report [frame:1], hand [frame:1]
On screen
Case No 6452 DR. J. J. O'BRIEN Name of Patient Mr. Stroy Diagnosis of Case No fractures, no internal injuries indicated. Condition excellent.
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: clinical, neutral; themes: medical documentation, bureaucratic record; style notes: close-up framing, high contrast black-and-white, static shot focusing on document

A close-up shows a medical report held by a hand, listing patient Mr. Stroy, case number 6452, and a diagnosis of no fractures or internal injuries. The report is signed by Dr. J. J. O'Brien and notes the patient's condition as excellent.

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 Two Weeks to Live (1943) at 23:06 (passage 23:01–23:10); US record: No renewal found

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