Private office
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Play from 26:02 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 62–62. 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 dark suit and tie, no hat, standing left visible
- man in dark suit and tie, facing p1, partially turned visible
- Frank Powell (named at t:26:21): man in dark suit, tie, and fedora, holding a gun, center visible, audible
- Curtis (named at t:26:32): man in dark suit and fedora, standing right, facing p3 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- Frank Powell confronts Curtis in a room with two other men. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Curtis! I thought I'd find you here. They've confessed. I told you I'd make them.” 26:32 · “They won't take them, Frank. They'll take you.” 26:38
- Seen
- gun [frame:1], fedora hats [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], wall sconce [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: justice vs. vengeance, confession under duress, moral ambiguity; style notes: medium shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s noir, characters in formal attire
Four men in suits and hats are in a room; one identifies himself as Frank Powell and confronts another named Curtis. A gun is present, and dialogue indicates a confession under duress and an impending police arrival.
“Send up a couple of men to 926 West 10th Street. Apartment 211.” 26:16 · “This is Frank Powell speaking.” 26:21 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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