Newsroom
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Play from 25:17 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 5 · shots 100–104. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man, middle-aged, wearing a fedora and dark coat, holding a telephone receiver visible
- man, wearing a vest, tie, and a cap with a headlamp, seated at a desk with telephones visible
- man, wearing a bow tie and a suit, standing next to a woman in a pinstripe suit visible
- Hildy (named at t:25:22): woman, wearing a pinstripe suit and a hat, standing in the center of the frame visible, audible
- man, wearing a suit and a hat, standing near a doorway visible
- man, wearing a suit and a hat, seated at a desk in the background visible
- Seen happening
- A man holds a telephone receiver to his ear. [frame:1]
- Several men are seated at desks with telephones in a newsroom. [frame:2]
- A woman in a pinstripe suit stands among men in a newsroom. [frame:3]
- A woman and a man stand facing each other near a doorway. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Three tickets to Albany on the 6 o'clock train tonight. What do you mean, three?” 25:53 · “Can you picture Hildy singing lullabies and hanging out daddies? Popping lies over the back fence. She gets tired of beating rugs. I don't know how to beat me rugs. I don't...” 26:06
- Seen
- telephone receiver, desk with multiple telephones, pinstripe suit and hat, doorway
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: lighthearted and chaotic; themes: gender roles in the workplace, professional identity vs. domestic life, skepticism toward personal announcements; style notes: tight framing on characters, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, rapid cuts between close-ups and medium shots
A woman in a pinstripe suit and hat announces her impending marriage and departure from the newspaper business, while colleagues react with skepticism and jokes. The scene takes place in a busy newsroom with multiple men at desks and telephones.
“Is that good? Sure looks good from here. Well, Hildy, when did he get back? Hi, Ernie. Hi, Hildy, glad to see you. Glad to see you, Matt. Where'd you get the hat? Yeah, I paid 12 bucks for that hat. Going back to work? No, it's just a farewell appearance. I'm going into business for myself. What do you want? No, no.” 25:22 · “I'm getting married tomorrow. Why? Again? Are we invited to the wedding?” 25:37 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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