Private office
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Play from 16:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 96–97. 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
- Jonathan Small (named at t:17:03): bald, wearing a dark suit, standing, gesturing with right hand visible, audible
- wearing a dark suit and hat, standing to right of p1, facing p1 visible, audible
- Mr. Shelter (named at t:16:56): wearing a light suit and bow tie, seated, facing p1 and p2 visible, audible
- Also said
- “You was a dusty, rotten snake thief.” 17:20 · “-Felice!” 17:28
- Seen
- desk [frame:1], lamp [frame:1], bow tie [frame:2], hat [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: accusation, inheritance of guilt, confrontation; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-ups, static camera emphasizing dialogue and facial expressions
Two men confront a seated man in a dimly lit room; one identifies himself as Jonathan Small and accuses the seated man's father of being a murderer. The confrontation escalates as one man calls the seated man a 'dusty, rotten snake thief' and questions if his father was also a murderer.
“I'm simply charmed to meet you, Mr. Shelter.” 16:56 · “My name's Small.” 17:00 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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