Private office
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Play from 20:20 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 31 · shots 169–171. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- woman, dark patterned dress with white collar, short dark hair, seated visible, audible
- man, dark suit, bow tie, mustache, standing then seated visible, audible
- Also said
- “Why, it would break the children's hearts. She's one of the family. All right, dear.” 20:34 · “Oh, it must be $700.” 20:46
- Seen
- bookshelf, desk lamp, curtains, vase
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and domestic; themes: family values, financial strain, moral choice; style notes: medium shots, studio lighting, formal attire, static camera
A man and a woman discuss a financial dispute involving a bank and a horse named Buttercup, with the woman stating she refused to sell the horse despite needing money. The scene takes place in a room with bookshelves and a desk lamp, and both characters are dressed formally.
“I don't think he will, dear.” 20:20 · “But what made me the maddest was when he offered me $300 for buttercup. Sell buttercup?” 20:28 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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