Private office
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Play from 21:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 26 · shots 107–107. 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 wearing a dark coat and fedora, medium build, appears in his 30s or 40s visible
- older man in a suit and tie, balding, side profile visible visible
- Also said
- “$250? I want to see you a long way.” 21:54 · “You go hop a freight so it won't cost you anything and keep the money for food.” 22:01
- Seen
- bookshelves, fedora hat, suit and tie
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and advisory; themes: advice under pressure, escape and survival, class and mobility; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-up, studio lighting, static framing
Two men are in a room with bookshelves; one gives advice about traveling by freight train and keeping money for food. The advice includes rejecting trains and automobiles and suggests the recipient will need the money for at least six months.
“That's my advice, and it's worth ten grand.” 21:46 · “Now beat him, sucker.” 21:49 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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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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