Private office
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Play from 40:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 34 · shots 90–97. 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
- Sam (named at t:40:34): man in dark suit, fedora, holding telephone receiver visible, audible
- man in vest and fedora, standing behind p1 visible
- Spikes (named at t:40:54): man in suit and fedora, talking to p1 on phone audible, mentioned
- man in suit, standing beside woman in frame:4 visible
- woman with dark hair, wearing dark coat visible
- Seen happening
- Sam hands the phone to another man who speaks with Spikes. [frame:3]
- Sam, a woman, and another man stand together in conversation. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “No, no chance, Spikes.” 40:54 · “And it's all your fault.” 41:12
- Seen
- telephone receiver, wall-mounted light fixture, fedora hats, wooden door
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: crime, legal trouble, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire typical of 1930s crime dramas
A man in a suit and fedora speaks on a telephone while another man stands behind him; later, he talks with a woman and another man. The transcript reveals that a character named Mish has been arrested and is being held without bail, and a lawyer is being contacted.
“This is Sam.” 40:34 · “They've got him in jail.” 40:37 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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