Private office
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Play from 37:54 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 35 · shots 231–232. 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, balding, wearing dark suit and tie, seated in armchair visible
- younger man, dark hair, wearing dark suit and tie, seated at desk visible
- Seen happening
- Two men are seated in a private office, one speaking while the other listens. [frame:1]
- The younger man leans forward slightly, appearing to respond or react. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “There was an attempt at firing one of the buildings on the very night Carson was murdered.” 38:06 · “Well, then the same man couldn't have killed Henry Carson. Yes, he'd have had time, only it wasn't a man.” 38:12
- Seen
- fireplace [frame:1], armchair [frame:1], desk [frame:1], telephone [frame:1], hat on mantel [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious and investigative; themes: murder mystery, insurance fraud, deception; style notes: static medium two-shot, studio lighting, formal attire, period decor
Two men in suits discuss a fire and murder in a room with a fireplace; one man is seated, the other sits at a desk with a telephone. The transcript reveals that Henry Carson was murdered before midnight, and a fire occurred that same night, suggesting the killer was not a man.
“The building's heavily insured. Yes, but that doesn't seem to be the end.” 37:54 · “In fact Henry Carson told Briggs to take steps to stop the fire.” 37:58 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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