Private office
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Play from 33:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 68–68. 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 fedora, facing right, profile visible visible
- Sparks (named at t:33:55): man in light suit, vest, tie, and fedora, center, looking up, heavier build visible, audible
- man in dark suit and hat, facing left, profile visible visible
- Seen happening
- Three men stand in a room, one speaking while the others listen. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “And if you don't win the fight on the 15th, I turn him back to the police.” 34:04 · “I got a Charlie Hawk. Maybe we better turn back. No, no. You go ahead. I'll wait for you here. All right. Take it easy. All right.” 34:32
- Seen
- fedora hat, suit and tie, wall painting or framed picture
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and coercive; themes: coercion, betrayal, negotiation under threat; style notes: medium shot, three-shot composition, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films, static camera
Three men in suits and hats are in a room, discussing a fight scheduled for the 15th; one man threatens to turn another over to the police unless he wins. One man mentions having a 'Charlie Hawk' and suggests turning back, but the others insist he go ahead.
“You gotta take Roundhouse Place on the 15th, Mish.” 33:41 · “And Tony's boy ain't no champ. You're crazy, Sparks. He hasn't got a champ. Well, who have we got to do?” 33:55 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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