Town square
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Play from 29:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 53 · shots 153–154. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Place
- town_square (town square, exterior) evidence: frame:2
- People
- man in dark leather jacket and scarf, mid-adult, medium build visible
- unspecified people in town square, including one in white apron visible
- Seen happening
- A man in a leather jacket stands in a doorway or interior space. [frame:1]
- A town square with wooden buildings, people, and a vehicle is shown. [frame:2]
- Also said
- “Nothing will ever fly again. Flying's over. Everything's over.” 29:50 · “Civilization's dead.” 29:53
- Seen
- leather jacket, wooden buildings, people in town square, vehicle
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: despairing and defeated; themes: collapse of technology, loss of hope, post-apocalyptic setting; style notes: high-contrast black and white, static framing, medium close-up on interior, wide shot of exterior
A man in a leather jacket stands in a dim interior while a town square with wooden buildings and people is shown outside. The dialogue expresses despair over lacking materials and petrol, declaring civilization dead and flying over.
“I have any more insulated wire. I've got no rubber to wire for it.” 29:32 · “Oh, what's the use? There's no petrol anyway.” 29:41 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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