Private office
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Play from 56:56 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 333–341. 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
- Holmes (named at t:57:20): man in dark suit, mustache, medium build visible, audible
- man in dark suit, seated, partially visible behind desk visible
- Jones (named at t:57:04): man in dark suit, standing, medium build visible, audible
- Emmett (named at t:57:24): man in dark suit, standing, medium build audible
- Seen happening
- A man in a dark suit stands near a desk while another man sits behind it. [frame:1]
- A man in a dark suit speaks directly to the camera. [frame:2]
- The same man turns his head slightly while speaking. [frame:3]
- The man continues speaking, looking slightly off-camera. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Wisconsin Yard, stand by. At your service, Mr. Holmes.” 57:20 · “Good night. Good night, John.” 57:38
- Seen
- desk, chair, microphone, framed picture, door
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dryly humorous and conversational; themes: detective work, professional camaraderie, skepticism vs. confidence; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing typical of early 1930s studio productions
A man in a dark suit speaks in an interior room while another man is visible in the background; dialogue references a detective case, a fancy dress ball, and an upcoming prisoner examination. The speaker addresses someone named Jones and mentions Holmes and Emmett, indicating a detective narrative.
“Attending a fancy dress ball.” 57:00 · “I thought you took your detective work seriously well this case is so simple jones” 57:04 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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