Police station
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- Place
- police_station (police station, interior) evidence: t:1:43
- Seen happening
- A title card appears stating the film is based on a true story involving a difficult homicide case. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “Because of that vast area, and because of a population made up of people from every state in the Union, Los Angeles is the largest police beat in the country, and one of the toughest.” 1:43 · “The lights on the complaint board flash 24 hours a day. Citizens reporting a prowler, a lost child, a man molesting a woman.” 2:04
- Seen
- title card
- On screen
- THIS IS A TRUE STORY. It is known to the Police Department of one of our largest cities as the most difficult homicide case in its experience, principally because of the diabolical cleverness, intelligence and cunning of a completely unknown killer...... The record is set down here factually --- as it happened. Only the names are changed --- to protect the innocent.
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and documentary-like; themes: true crime, urban policing, city as character; style notes: black-and-white, static title card, voiceover narration, no visible characters, formal framing
The beat opens with a title card stating the film is based on a true story involving a difficult homicide case in a major city, followed by a voiceover describing Los Angeles as a sprawling, diverse metropolis with a large police jurisdiction. The narration introduces the setting at City Hall's police communications center, where complaint lights flash continuously.
“This is Los Angeles, Our Lady the Queen of the Angels, as the Spaniards named her. The fastest growing city in the nation.” 1:07 · “It's been called a bunch of suburbs in search of a city. And it's been called the glamour capital of the world.” 1:16 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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