Private office
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Play from 59:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 104 · shots 267–268. 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
- older man, bald, wearing dark suit and tie, smiling visible
- Fraser (named at t:59:36): man wearing fedora, dark suit, holding a gun, standing center visible
- Mr. Wong (named at t:59:36): man with dark hair, wearing light suit and tie, facing p2 visible, audible
- man in dark suit, partially visible behind p2 visible
- woman wearing dark hat and coat, standing right visible
- Seen happening
- The object is opened to reveal a photograph of part of China. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “that's probably it” 60:08 · “I think we can trust you to see that it remains so.” 60:24
- Seen
- gun, small object (film container), photograph
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and resolved; themes: betrayal, revelation, trust, national sovereignty; style notes: medium close-up shots, high-contrast studio lighting, formal attire, static camera
Three men stand in a room; one holds a gun while another is searched. A small object is found and opened, revealing a photograph of part of China, which is then entrusted to one of the men.
“You're very clever, Mr. Wong, but you still haven't got the scroll, and what's more, you'll never get it.” 59:36 · “But you didn't destroy it without photographing it.” 59:44 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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