Private office
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Play from 24:53 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 61–61. 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
- Paul (named at t:25:49): man in dark suit and fedora, standing, facing p2 visible, audible
- man in dark suit, no hat, facing p1, holding something small in hand visible, audible
- Also said
- “I guess you've got us, Paul.” 25:49 · “We killed him. He's trained me. I ought to put a bullet in the both of you.” 25:53
- Seen
- fedora hat, dark suit, wall-mounted light fixture, door with glass panel
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and accusatory; themes: betrayal, confession, corruption, justice delayed; style notes: medium two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, 1930s film noir aesthetic
Two men in suits confront each other in an interior space; one accuses the other of murder for insurance money, and the accused admits guilt. The confrontation occurs after a mention of an escaped prisoner and a missing person named Richardson.
“We're from headquarters. We want to look around.” 24:57 · “You two killed Carlton for the insurance money.” 25:41 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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