Street
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Play from 11:03 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 17 · shots 82–83. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1, frame:2
- People
- woman, wearing a dark dress with a high collar and a hat with a flower, appears middle-aged visible, audible
- Major Berdle (named at t:11:06): man, wearing a dark suit and a bowler hat, appears middle-aged, standing with hands on hips visible, audible
- boy, wearing a dark jacket, light shirt, and a bowler hat, appears young, standing with hands clasped visible
- man, wearing a dark suit and a top hat, appears older, standing to the right of the boy visible
- woman, wearing a light shawl and a hat with a bow, appears middle-aged, standing to the left visible
- man, wearing a dark suit and a hat, appears middle-aged, standing in the background visible
- woman, wearing a dark dress and a hat, appears middle-aged, standing in the background visible
- Seen happening
- A woman confronts a man and a boy on a street, raising her hands toward the boy. [frame:1]
- The man identified as Major Berdle speaks to the woman while standing next to the boy. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Either you're going to put your boy in school or we'll do it for you.” 11:19 · “Please be reasonable. How can I continue my crusade against the demon rum if I have to stay in one place so my boy can attend school? My work carries me into far-flung fields. Then you can put him in boarding school.” 11:22
- Seen
- hats [frame:1], brick building [frame:2], sign [frame:2]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: conflict between personal mission and legal obligation, child education law enforcement, gender roles in public confrontation; style notes: medium shots, static camera, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, period costumes
A confrontation occurs outdoors between a woman and a man identified as Major Berdle, with a boy present, over the boy's schooling. The woman argues her work requires travel, while the man insists the boy must attend school, suggesting boarding school as an option.
“Not so fast there, young girl. Here, here, take your hands up on my boy. What's the meaning of this? You know very well, Major Berdle.” 11:06 · “You failed to heed the warning of the State Board of Education, so I brought the law here this time.” 11:14 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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