Private office
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Play from 7:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 8 · shots 22–24. 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 light suit, standing, mid-adult, average build visible
- Carlton (named at t:8:07): man in dark suit, standing, mid-adult, average build, holding papers visible, audible
- Halton (named at t:8:26): man in dark suit, seated, mid-adult, average build, mustache visible, audible
- Pao (named at t:8:39): man in dark suit, seated, mid-adult, average build, mustache, hands clasped visible, audible
- Also said
- “I'm in charge of operations.” 8:33 · “I've done a lot of talking about how honest this company is. I've taken money from people who can't afford to lose it.” 8:42
- Seen
- papers [frame:1], bottle and glasses on side table [frame:1], window blinds [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], door with sign [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: corporate dishonesty, personal accountability, financial risk; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing typical of 1930s studio films
Three men in suits are in an office, discussing reports about drilling operations; one man expresses doubt about the reports' accuracy and mentions a letter from Mrs. Hardy. One man, Halton, claims to be in charge of operations and dismisses the concerns, while another man, Pao, appears distressed and admits to having invested his own money.
“What sort of progress are we making at the field, Carlton?” 8:07 · “Here's a letter from a Mrs. Hardy.” 8:20 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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