Private office
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Play from 6:13 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 21–21. 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
- Frank (named at t:6:21): man in suit, seated, holding paper visible, audible
- Mrs. Harding (named at t:6:19): woman in hat and fur collar, seated visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Mrs. Harding enters the office after being invited in. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Sarah wanted me to go straight to the police.” 7:22 · “perfectly legitimate deal, and everything's going to turn out all right.” 7:40
- Seen
- paper, bookshelf, desk, chair
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense but reassuring; themes: trust, financial anxiety, confidential consultation; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, studio lighting, formal attire, 1930s office decor
A man and a woman meet in an office; she expresses concern about oil stock based on a letter from Joe, and he reassures her after reviewing a report. The woman mentions Sarah advised going to the police, but she chose to consult him instead.
“Hello, Mrs. Harding.” 6:19 · “And I've just had a letter from him that's made me terribly anxious about my oil stock.” 6:40 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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