Private office
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Play from 50:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 109–109. 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 suit and fedora, heavier build, gesturing with right hand visible, audible
- Powell (named at t:50:15): man in suit and fedora, slimmer build, standing still, listening visible, audible
- Also said
- “Yes, and proved that Powell was innocent.” 50:15 · “This will never prove anything.” 50:18
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], blinds [frame:1], suit and fedora [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: legal jeopardy, innocence, conspiracy; style notes: medium two-shot, static framing, high-contrast lighting typical of 1930s studio films
Two men in suits and hats stand in an interior room with blinds and a desk, discussing police findings and innocence. One man gestures while speaking; the other listens, and they mention Powell and fraud.
“Are we lucky?” 50:10 · “The police have found this? They convict us of fraud.” 50:11 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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