Private office
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Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 119 · shots 619–620. 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:2
- People
- man in dark suit, standing at a podium, gesturing toward a map visible, audible
- seated audience members, mostly men in suits, some visible from behind visible
- Seen happening
- A large map of the United States is visible, covered with dark spots indicating club locations. [frame:1]
- A man in a suit stands at a podium, gesturing toward the map while addressing seated audience members. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Why, over 2,400 John Doe clubs are sending delegates. Can you imagine that?” 69:15
- Seen
- map of the United States, podium, chairs, window with curtains
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and promotional; themes: mass movement, media influence, political organizing; style notes: medium shot of speaker with wide map background; high-contrast lighting; formal composition
A man addresses a seated audience in a room with a large map of the United States behind him, discussing the rapid growth of John Doe clubs. The map shows numerous dark spots across the country, indicating widespread club presence.
“I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, this thing has been nothing short of a prairie fire.” 69:00 · “We've received so many applications for charters to the John Doe clubs, we haven't been able to take care of them. I'd hate to have that many pins stuck in me. This John Doe convention is a natural. It's going to put our city on the map.” 69:04 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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