Private office
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Play from 45:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 107–107. 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 light-colored suit and fedora, standing left, looking at desk visible
- Frank Powell (named at t:45:13): man in dark suit and fedora, center, leaning over desk, handling object visible
- man in dark suit and fedora, right, holding briefcase, looking down visible
- Smokey (named at t:46:59): unseen, addressed as 'Smokey' and 'Tony' audible, mentioned
- Tony (named at t:47:01): unseen, mentioned as 'Tony' mentioned
- Carlton (named at t:47:14): unseen, mentioned as 'Carlton' mentioned
- Also said
- “Okay, you can put your hands down now. Well, ain't you the police? No, we're investigators from the insurance company. We're still working on the idea that maybe you were framed.” 45:26 · “Oh, it's a dictaphone.” 46:12
- Seen
- dictaphone, briefcase, desk, fedora hats, suits
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful and investigative; themes: investigation, framing, insurance fraud, office technology; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire, period office setting
Three men in suits and hats examine an object on a desk in an office; one is identified as Frank Powell. They discuss a murder investigation, insurance investigators, and a dictaphone, while another character named Smokey is addressed off-screen.
“Frank Powell.” 45:13 · “trying to prove I didn't kill Tarbun.” 45:17 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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