Private office
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Play from 16:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 14 · shots 40–41. 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 and tie, mid-30s, neat haircut, seated visible
- man behind wire mesh, wearing dark shirt, older, tense expression visible, audible
- back of head, dark hair, wearing dark coat visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a suit sits in an office with a lamp visible. [frame:1]
- A man is seen behind a wire mesh barrier, being addressed by another person. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Wouldn't be so bad if I were guilty, but I didn't kill Carlton. I didn't.” 17:54 · “I know that, Frank. It was Richards and Burns. They killed him for the insurance money. Can't anybody but me see that?” 17:58
- Seen
- desk lamp with globe shade, wire mesh barrier
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: innocence claimed, legal accusation, betrayal, insurance fraud; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, confined framing (jail bars), formal attire suggests courtroom or interrogation setting
A man in a suit is shown in a private office, followed by a scene of a man behind bars being spoken to. The transcript reveals an accusation of murder and a claim of innocence, with references to a victim named Carlton and a trial.
“For what? For the murder of William Carlton.” 16:10 · “I didn't kill Carlton. I swear I didn't! I swear it!” 16:40 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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