Private office
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Play from 27:16 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 173–174. 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
- woman, wearing a cloche hat and light-colored blouse under a dark cardigan, young adult visible
- man, wearing a dark suit and tie, medium build, adult visible, audible
- man, wearing a dark suit, seated, head down, appearing distressed visible
- man, wearing a dark suit, standing near a desk, smoking a cigarette visible
- Seen happening
- A man and a woman stand facing each other in a room. [frame:1]
- A man stands near a desk while two others are seated; one appears distressed. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “I suppose I should have had more courage.” 27:25 · “What is most'n?” 27:32
- Seen
- desk, lamp, cigarette, cloche hat, suit, cardigan
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and introspective; themes: moral dilemma, cowardice, consequence; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes, staged interior
A man and a woman are shown in a room; the man speaks about being overwhelmed and not acting courageously. Another frame shows a man standing near a desk while two others are seated, one appearing to be in distress.
“With so many things happening in such quick succession,” 27:16 · “Send a safe, Franklin.” 27:21 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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