Private office
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Play from 22:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 43 · shots 130–135. 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 in dark suit and bow tie, holding a pipe, standing near a lamp visible, audible
- man in dark suit and bow tie, standing with arms crossed in front of patterned curtains visible, audible
- man with mustache, wearing dark suit and tie, standing near a desk with objects visible
- Seen happening
- A third man is visible near a desk with objects. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “Ring, Watson, the knocker doesn't function. You should have noticed that.” 22:50 · “Ah.” 22:57
- Seen
- pipe, lamp, patterned curtains, desk with objects, wall clock
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anticipatory; themes: mystery, expectation, social interaction; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal framing
Two men are in a room with patterned curtains and a desk; one speaks about owing an apology and lacking adventure, while the other is instructed to ring a non-functioning knocker. A third man appears briefly, and the first man reacts to a sound or arrival.
“You know, I owe you an apology.” 22:40 · “You come here for adventure?” 22:42 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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