Private office
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Play from 12:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 80–81. 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
- man, medium build, wearing light shirt and dark trousers, standing with one arm on wall visible
- man, seated on floor, wearing light shirt, head down visible
- man, standing, holding hat, wearing light shirt and dark trousers visible
- man, standing, wearing light shirt and dark trousers, adjusting collar visible
- Seen happening
- A man leans against a wall while another sits on the floor. [frame:1]
- Two men stand in a cluttered room; one holds a hat, the other adjusts his collar. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “And he kicked the bucket.” 12:48 · “But fear the real owner...” 12:57
- Seen
- hat, table with bowls and boxes, lamp, wall paintings
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: prison experience, treasure, fear of authority, negotiation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, cluttered set design
A man stands leaning against a wall while another sits on the floor; later, two men stand in a cluttered room with one holding a hat. The transcript includes dialogue about prison, education, treasure, and fear of authorities.
“You don't think I've spent in that stinking prison for 20 years without getting educated to you?” 12:23 · “Most of the treasure is safe.” 12:37 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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