Private office
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Play from 28:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 185–187. 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 tie, mustache, standing visible
- woman seated, dark hair with accessory, light blouse visible
- man in dark suit and bow tie, clean-shaven visible
- man with glasses, close-up of face visible
- Also said
- “Or if he suffers abominably from arthritis.” 28:43
- Seen
- curtains, bookshelf, clock, glasses
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: dryly humorous; themes: inquiry, triviality vs. importance; style notes: static medium and close-up shots, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging
A man in a suit stands beside a seated woman in a dimly lit room with curtains and shelves; another man in a bow tie is shown in a medium shot, followed by a close-up of a man's face with glasses. The transcript includes a question addressed to Mr. Holmes about trivial personal details.
“Perhaps you can tell us, Mr. Holmes, if the color of his eyes” 28:38 · “If he likes white mice dolls.” 28:41 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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