Railroad tracks
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Play from 34:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 17 · shots 131–134. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- railroad_tracks (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
- People
- man wearing a fedora and light-colored suit, visible in frame:2 and frame:4 visible
- Ted (named at t:35:01): man wearing a fedora and dark suit, visible in frame:2 and frame:4, speaking in transcript visible, audible
- Seen happening
- A train is visible approaching on the tracks in the distance. [frame:1]
- Two men are crouched in bushes beside the tracks, talking. [frame:2]
- The train is closer and emitting smoke. [frame:3]
- The two men look up, alarmed, as the train nears. [frame:4]
- Also said
- “Maybe the engineer will get me to set up there in the engine with him and ride me clear into the county seat.” 35:01 · “Oh, no, we've got plenty of time, Ted. See, the closer it gets to Abner, the bigger hero it'll make out of me.” 35:01
- Seen
- train [frame:1], railroad tracks [frame:1], bushes [frame:2], telephone poles [frame:1]
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and comedic; themes: comedy of errors, misadventure, heroism; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots alternating with long shots, natural outdoor lighting, static camera
Two men are hiding in bushes beside railroad tracks as a train approaches; one speaks of becoming a hero when it reaches Abner. The scene is set outdoors during the day, with the train visible in the distance.
“Patrick, don't leave me, Patrick!” 34:59 · “Dad, blame it all. Dennis, I hope they stop the train and all the customers get out and shake hands with me.” 35:01 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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