Private office
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Play from 42:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 264–264. 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
- dark coat, hat, seen from behind or side, medium build visible
- dark coat, hat, standing upright, medium build visible
- Detective Inspector Athelny Jones (named at t:43:00): not visible audible, mentioned
- Seen happening
- Two men stand in a dim room, one leaning forward as if examining something. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “And you'll probably find that they lead you in directly the opposite direction to that of my old friend, Detective Inspector Athelny Jones, whom I can hear blowing his way upstairs. Yes, sounds like him.” 43:00 · “Yes, unmistakably. He'll begin by telling me that an ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory, and then proceed to arrest everybody on the spot.” 43:09
- Seen
- coat, hat, furniture (partial, dark)
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, anticipatory; themes: investigation, conflict of methods, authority vs. intellect; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static medium shot, shadowed figures, period costume
Two men are seen in a dimly lit interior, one leaning forward as if examining something while the other stands beside him. A voice discusses footprints and mentions Detective Inspector Athelny Jones approaching upstairs.
“What's your theory about these footprints?” 42:55 · “Well, apply my method, Watson.” 42:58 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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