Auction house
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Play from 28:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 24 · shots 120–122. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- auction_house (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark suit, standing at podium, older, balding visible, audible
- lady from Twickenham (named at t:28:38): woman wearing striped hat and coat, seated, smiling visible
- man in dark suit, leaning over desk, younger visible
- man in light coat, standing near podium visible
- audience members, seated, wearing hats and coats visible
- Seen happening
- The woman in the striped hat is shown smiling as the sale is completed. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Six pounds is offered, six pounds, six pounds, going once.” 28:34 · “Going twice, the third and the last call will be all done. Sold to the lady from Twickenham for six pounds.” 28:38
- Seen
- auction podium, stacked books, striped hat, audience seating, ornate mirror
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal and transactional; themes: commerce, social ritual, public bidding; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, staged composition
An auction is taking place in a formal room; a woman in a striped hat is identified as the buyer. The auctioneer calls out bids and declares the item sold to her for six pounds.
“All right, five. Five pounds is up at five pounds is up at five pounds is up at five pounds ten.” 28:27 · “Five pounds fifteen, five pounds fifteen.” 28:31 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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