Private office
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Play from 39:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 47 · shots 397–401. 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
- man with curly hair, wearing a light shirt and dark tie, right arm in a white sling visible, audible
- man wearing a dark fedora, light shirt, dark tie, and suspenders visible
- Seen happening
- The man with the fedora reacts with surprise. [frame:2]
- The man with the fedora looks down at a small object in his hand. [frame:2]
- The man with the fedora looks up and to his left. [frame:3]
- Also said
- “And Zangara got the cheer for his try at Roosevelt.” 39:42 · “I hate crowds.” 39:49
- Seen
- white sling, fedora hat, dark tie, suspender strap, curtained window, shelf with decorative objects
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: assassination, historical reference, personal opinion; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups, studio lighting, static camera
Two men are in a room; one has a bandaged arm and speaks about historical assassinations, while the other, wearing a fedora, listens. The conversation references Garfield, McKinley, and Zangara, and includes a comment about hating crowds.
“The guy who killed Garfield didn't make it either.” 39:34 · “Just took a lucky shot, strictly left-handed, just like McKinley.” 39:39 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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