Private office
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Play from 7:28 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 20 · shots 51–58. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- balding man in dark suit and light shirt, appears middle-aged, seated visible, audible
- bald man in dark suit, standing or leaning, appears middle-aged visible, audible
- Also said
- “Moston had a daughter.” 7:47 · “Mary, I think her name is... Runs a florist shop in the West End. Look.” 7:51
- Seen
- bookshelves [frame:1], desk [frame:4], lamp [frame:3]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and fearful; themes: fear, treasure, secrets, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, bookshelves suggest a study or office, actors in formal attire
Two men are in a room with bookshelves; one man speaks fearfully about Jonathan Small and a treasure, while the other listens and later directs him to open a desk drawer. The speaker mentions a florist shop and a woman named Mary.
“He'll kill me. He said he would. He escaped a month ago from Andaman. Jonathan Small, who is he? He's only one leg.” 7:28 · “I robbed him of his treasure.” 7:37 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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