Private office
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Play from 58:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 106 · shots 538–538. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- John (named at t:59:08): man in dark suit and tie, mid-30s, medium build, serious expression visible, audible
- woman in dark dress and hat, 30s, standing facing p1 visible, audible
- man in dark suit, older, balding, standing to right of p2 visible
- man in dark suit, partially visible behind p1, left side visible
- Colonel (named at t:59:08): man in dark suit, older, standing to right of p3 visible, audible
- Seen happening
- The group stands in a room with framed pictures on the wall. [frame:1]
- Also said
- “If you got an idea I'm going around lecturing the people, why, you're crazy.” 59:01 · “Come on Colonel, let's get out of here. John, please, please. I just got rid of one crowd. But please, Mr. Mayor, tell him the John Doe Club wants to talk to him.” 59:08
- Seen
- framed pictures [frame:1], dark suits [frame:1], hat [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and confrontational; themes: individual vs. mass movement, media manipulation, personal integrity; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, formal attire, static framing emphasizing dialogue
A man in a suit refuses to participate in a lecture tour tied to the John Doe movement, insisting he only wants to play baseball. A woman and others, including a man called 'Colonel', attempt to persuade him while standing in a room with framed pictures.
“I don't care what they're for, and I'm on my way, and I don't like the idea of being stopped either. Oh, but you don't know how big this thing is. You should see the thousands of telegrams we've received and what they're saying about you.” 58:27 · “Well, you got your circulation. Now, why don't you let me alone? Oh, it started as a circulation stunt, but it isn't anymore. Mr. Norton wants to get back of it and sponsor John Doe clubs all over the country. He wants to send you on a lecture tour.” 58:39 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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