Newsroom
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Play from 24:48 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 98–99. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man in dark suit and fedora, holding telephone receiver to ear visible, audible
- man in vest and cap, wearing glasses, holding telephone receiver to ear visible
- man in dark suit and hat, seated in background, smoking pipe visible
- man in dark suit and hat, seated in background, holding telephone receiver visible
- Also said
- “This is Murphy. More slop on the hanging. A double guard has been thrown around the jail, municipal buildings, railroad terminals and elevated stations to prepare for the expected general uprising of radicals at the hour of execution. The sheriff has just put 200 more relatives on the payroll to protect the city from the Red Army, which is leaving Moscow in a couple of minutes.” 24:58
- Seen
- telephone receivers, papers and notepads, hats (fedora, cap), pipe
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and chaotic; themes: media frenzy, political tension, bureaucratic absurdity; style notes: tight framing on characters at a table, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, cluttered composition suggesting busy newsroom activity
A group of men in hats sit at a table with telephones and papers in a busy office. One man speaks on the phone while another listens, and a voice reports on security measures ahead of an execution.
“Figure it out for yourself. He's the guy they sent to Washington to interview the brain trust. Find me.” 24:48 · “You said they were saying that number here's the situation on the eve of the hanging. I'll pick up a little fudge.” 24:53 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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