Police station
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Play from 17:58 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
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Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 16 · shots 52–52. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- police_station (police station, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- Captain Breen (named at t:18:03): man in dark suit, short hair, standing at a desk visible, audible
- woman with dark curly hair, wearing a light blouse and dark apron, standing beside a desk visible
- unseen speaker, referred to as 'Lee' and 'Junior' audible, mentioned
- Captain Stevens (named at t:18:03): unseen speaker, referred to as 'Steve' and 'Captain Stevens' audible, mentioned
- unseen dispatcher, voice heard over radio audible
- Also said
- “List of burglars who use pick locks for entry. Oh, great. This narrows it down to just a couple of hundred suspects in this area.” 19:18 · “Car 12, car 1-2, in the 10,000 block on Mississippi.” 20:00
- Seen
- desk, telephone, file cabinet, apron
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and procedural; themes: police procedure, criminal investigation, team dynamics; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, focused on character interaction at a desk
A police officer speaks on the phone about burglaries possibly linked to a killer, then instructs a junior officer to assist with research. A dispatcher calls out a police car assignment for a disturbance.
“This is Captain Breen. Get me Captain Stevens of Burglary, will you?” 18:03 · “I've got an idea the Rawlins killer may be tied in with those.” 18:34 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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