Sandakan
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Starts here: start of film. Sequence 1 · shots 0–0. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- Sandakan (town square, exterior) evidence: t:1:15
- People
- Agnes Keith (named at t:1:32): narrator, American woman, voice only audible
- Seen happening
- Text on screen states the film is a true story and scenes were photographed in locales associated with Mrs. Keith. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “My name is Agnes Keith. I was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.” 1:32 · “and 41, certain only of one thing, that sooner or later, Japanese guns would join in the funders of war, and Japanese troops would come down through the East Indies.” 2:02
- Seen
- map, on-screen text
- On screen
- This is a true story. Exterior scenes were photographed whenever possible in Borneo, in the exact locales associated with the events as related by Mrs. Keith.
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn, documentary; themes: war, colonialism, personal history, true story; style notes: black-and-white, static map shot with overlaid text, voice-over narration
The beat introduces Agnes Keith, an American woman in Sandakan, British North Borneo in 1941, who narrates her personal history and the looming threat of Japanese invasion. The film states it is a true story and was photographed in locales associated with Mrs. Keith.
“Six degrees north of the equator, in the heart of the East Indies, lies Sandakon.” 1:15 · “the tiny capital of British North Borneo. In Sandaken in 1941, there were 15,000 Asiatics, 79 Europeans, and one American. I was the American.” 1:20 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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