Private office
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Play from 39:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 59 · shots 349–352. 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
- woman with long hair, wearing a light-colored top with a collar, appearing distressed visible
- Seen happening
- A woman looks down with a distressed expression. [frame:1]
- A hand turns the dial on an old-fashioned radio. [frame:2]
- The woman looks up with a fearful expression. [frame:3]
- The radio dial is shown again with a hand adjusting it. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Civil defense authorities have told newsmen that murder victims show evidence of having been partially devoured by their murderers.” 39:52 · “Medical examination of victims' bodies shows conclusively that the killers are eating the flesh of the people they kill.” 40:00
- Seen
- radio, radio
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and ominous; themes: media as source of horror, isolation, impending threat; style notes: black-and-white, close-up framing on the woman’s face and radio, high-contrast lighting emphasizing fear
A woman is shown in close-up with a distressed expression while a radio broadcasts a bulletin about cannibalistic killers. The radio is an old-fashioned model with a large dial, visible in two frames.
“Medical authorities in Cumberland have concluded that in all cases...” 39:39 · “are eating the flesh of the people they murdered.” 39:44 automatic transcript, may be wrong
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Public domain through a copyright notice omitted on release in 1968, a rule this registry does not yet apply; the finding is the film's own documented history, not a catalog check. 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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