Private office
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Play from 50:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 36 · shots 110–112. 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, medium build, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
- man in dark suit and fedora, medium build, visible in frame 1 and 2 visible
- man in dark suit and fedora, standing in center of frame 2, appears to be speaking visible, audible
- man in light-colored suit and fedora, visible in frame 3 visible
- man in dark suit and fedora, visible in frame 3, partially obscured visible
- Also said
- “He committed suicide. That's the truth.” 50:59 · “You can save yourselves from the chair.” 51:04
- Seen
- fedora hats [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], stacked boxes [frame:1], framed map or artwork [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: justice, accusation, denial; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests 1930s studio production
Two men are confronted and arrested for the murder of William Carlton; one claims Carlton committed suicide. A signed confession from Tony Maroc is cited as evidence against them.
“You two men are under arrest. Arrest?” 50:34 · “For the murder of William Carlton.” 50:39 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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