{ "slug": "nobody-home", "title": "NOBODY HOME", "state": "proof reviewed", "summary": "Rooms after erasure \u2014 intact passage, person-removal intervention, and inspection triptych. Show an intact room sequence where a person occupies and interacts with furniture; return to a version with the person computationally removed while room effects remain; hold the empty aftermath; end with an Original / Mask / Derived comparison. Cut across 4 verified public-domain archival windows (49.3s) and audited across two Critic Tribunal rounds (v1 \u2192 v2).", "video": { "src": "nobody-home.mp4", "poster": "poster.jpg", "duration": 49.29, "width": 960, "height": 540, "card": "opens with title slate and closes with full archival source audit card" }, "searches": [ { "q": "empty room with chair and window, locked-off camera", "results": 20, "sheet": "img/sheet-1.jpg" }, { "q": "person enters room, moves chair or object, and leaves", "results": 20, "sheet": "img/sheet-2.jpg" }, { "q": "domestic interior after departure, held empty frame", "results": 18, "sheet": "img/sheet-3.jpg" } ], "looks": [ { "img": "img/strip-058430e4.jpg", "clip": 1, "label": "#1 Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (1958) [058430e4]", "used": [ 1 ], "in_cut": true }, { "img": "img/strip-91390311.jpg", "clip": 2, "label": "#2 Court to Court \\(Aug 2002\\) (2002) [91390311]", "used": [ 2 ], "in_cut": true }, { "img": "img/strip-27f75a9f.jpg", "clip": 3, "label": "#3 American Look (Part I) (1958) [27f75a9f]", "used": [ 3 ], "in_cut": true }, { "img": "img/strip-b2e97ba8.jpg", "clip": 4, "label": "#4 Something New From Something Old (1958) [b2e97ba8]", "used": [ 4 ], "in_cut": true }, { "img": "img/strip-cand-029b1dea.jpg", "clip": 5, "label": "Candidate [029b1dea] (inspected on contact sheet; rejected due to weaker framing or internal cut)", "used": [], "in_cut": false }, { "img": "img/strip-cand-080e4e44.jpg", "clip": 6, "label": "Candidate [080e4e44] (inspected on contact sheet; rejected due to weaker framing or internal cut)", "used": [], "in_cut": false } ], "shots": [ { "at": 3.0, "dur": 7.5, "source": "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?", "year": 1958, "clip": "058430e4", "source_in": 3.6, "source_out": 11.05, "url": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/have-i-told-you-lately-that-i-love-you-0e6a48dc?clip=058430e4-9cb9-5f36-9d45-faf15c735299", "transforms": [ "phase: PASS 1 \u00b7 INTACT ARCHIVAL RECORDING", "bridge: RECORDED PIXELS INTACT", "verified cut-free window (motion \u0394=1.8, luma=45.3)" ], "sound_from": [ { "source": "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?", "year": 1958, "source_in": 3.6, "source_out": 11.05 } ], "why": "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (1958): Intact living room recording with figure seated in armchair beside lamp. Bridge: RECORDED PIXELS INTACT. Selected from Have I Told You Lately That I Love You? (1958) at 3.60\u201311.05s because the gesture is complete inside a verified single-camera take with zero internal cuts." }, { "at": 10.5, "dur": 6.8, "source": "Court to Court \\(Aug 2002\\)", "year": 2002, "clip": "91390311", "source_in": 0.5, "source_out": 7.3, "url": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/court-to-court-aug-2002-d1747427?clip=91390311-d7f2-541e-a049-ea1b21356173", "transforms": [ "phase: PASS 1B \u00b7 INTACT ROOM & CHAIR INTERACTION", "bridge: RECORDED PIXELS INTACT", "verified cut-free window (motion \u0394=8.9, luma=105.6)" ], "sound_from": [ { "source": "Court to Court \\(Aug 2002\\)", "year": 2002, "source_in": 0.5, "source_out": 7.3 } ], "why": "Court to Court (2002): Person enters the room and approaches the chair and desk. Bridge: RECORDED PIXELS INTACT. Selected from Court to Court \\(Aug 2002\\) (2002) at 0.50\u20137.30s because the gesture is complete inside a verified single-camera take with zero internal cuts." }, { "at": 24.8, "dur": 7.5, "source": "American Look (Part I)", "year": 1958, "clip": "27f75a9f", "source_in": 1.0, "source_out": 8.5, "url": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/american-look-part-i-f9be001f?clip=27f75a9f-fd53-5181-b3de-74bcbd88b498", "transforms": [ "phase: PASS 3 \u00b7 HELD EMPTY AFTERMATH WITH ROOM SOUND", "bridge: DURATION STUDY: NATURALLY EMPTY ROOM", "verified cut-free window (motion \u0394=13.1, luma=53.8)" ], "sound_from": [ { "source": "American Look (Part I)", "year": 1958, "source_in": 1.0, "source_out": 8.5 } ], "why": "American Look (1958): Holding the naturally unoccupied modernist room and chairs. Bridge: DURATION STUDY: NATURALLY EMPTY ROOM. Selected from American Look (Part I) (1958) at 1.00\u20138.50s because the gesture is complete inside a verified single-camera take with zero internal cuts." }, { "at": 32.3, "dur": 6.0, "source": "Something New From Something Old", "year": 1958, "clip": "b2e97ba8", "source_in": 0.13, "source_out": 5.08, "url": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/something-new-from-something-old-1d1276c0?clip=b2e97ba8-5d17-5312-9404-5afe6e7493a8", "transforms": [ "phase: PASS 3B \u00b7 DOMESTIC STILLNESS", "bridge: HELD AFTERMATH", "verified cut-free window (motion \u0394=3.6, luma=83.3)" ], "sound_from": [ { "source": "Something New From Something Old", "year": 1958, "source_in": 0.13, "source_out": 5.08 } ], "why": "Something New From Something Old (1958): Unoccupied furnished sitting room held with room tone. Bridge: HELD AFTERMATH. Selected from Something New From Something Old (1958) at 0.13\u20135.08s because the gesture is complete inside a verified single-camera take with zero internal cuts." } ], "reel": "img/reel.jpg", "reviews": [ { "round": 1, "who": "Independent material-and-compositing critic", "verdict": "reference stronger", "text": "VERDICT: repair_required (Round 1 \u2014 v1 assembly audit)\nCritic Role: Independent material-and-compositing critic\n\nObserved Defects on v1 Proof Strip:\n- Seg #02 (t=03.50s-12.00s): `058430e4` cuts internally from a night exterior to a seated woman in an armchair.\n- Seg #04 (t=19.50s-28.00s) & Seg #07 (t=42.50s-51.00s): Because the seated woman barely moves, temporal-median subtraction alone leaves her visible inside the armchair.\n\nLargest Gap:\nThe core person-removal intervention in Seg #04 and Seg #07 failed to erase the person because temporal-median subtraction alone cannot remove a nearly stationary seated figure.\n\nCausal Hypothesis:\nApplying pure temporal-median subtraction to a stationary figure (`058430e4`, plus crossing the cut at 3.0s) baked the person into the median background.\n\nFalsifiable Repair Condition:\nClamp `058430e4` strictly to its continuous interior living-room shot (`3.6s-11.6s`, `custom_window=True`) AND upgrade `build_erasure_shot` to combine motion differencing with spatial figure silhouette segmentation (`person_box=[0.30, 0.16, 0.72, 0.90]`) + OpenCV Telea inpainting so the woman is completely erased from the armchair in Pass 2 (`derived`) and Pass 4 (`triptych` right panel) while the armchair, lamp, and room remain intact.\n\nStrength to Preserve:\nThe 3-panel inspection triptych layout (`Original | Extracted Mask | Derived Empty Room`) and the held naturally empty modernist rooms (`27f75a9f` and `b2e97ba8`).\n", "builder_note": "Agreed with Round 1 critic findings. Replaced/re-windowed the flagged segments (Clamp `058430e4` strictly to its continuous interior living-room shot (`3.6s-11.6s`, `custom_window=True`) AND upgrade `build_erasure_shot` to combine motion differencing with spatial figure silhouette segmentation (`person_box=[0.30, 0.16, 0.72, 0.90]`) + OpenCV Telea inpainting so the woman is completely erased from the armchair in Pass 2 (`derived`) and Pass 4 (`triptych` right panel) while the armchair, lamp, and room remain intact.) and re-rendered v2.", "packet": { "sheet": "img/critic-r1-sheet.jpg", "transcript": "critic/round1.txt", "note": "8-frame v1 temporal proof strip and segment diagnostics prior to repair" } }, { "round": 2, "who": "Independent material-and-compositing critic", "verdict": "pass (visual & structural)", "text": "VERDICT: pass (Round 2 \u2014 v2 repaired assembly verification)\nCritic Role: Independent material-and-compositing critic\n\nVerification of Falsifiable Repair:\n- Executed repair: Clamp `058430e4` strictly to its continuous interior living-room shot (`3.6s-11.6s`, `custom_window=True`) AND upgrade `build_erasure_shot` to combine motion differencing with spatial figure silhouette segmentation (`person_box=[0.30, 0.16, 0.72, 0.90]`) + OpenCV Telea inpainting so the woman is completely erased from the armchair in Pass 2 (`derived`) and Pass 4 (`triptych` right panel) while the armchair, lamp, and room remain intact.\n- Automated structural check: 0 internal camera cuts (max_frame_diff < 16.0), 0 title-card contaminants, 0 missing glyph boxes.\n- Visual inspection of 8-frame v2 proof strip confirms every shot establishes and completes its visible action while preserving the strength identified in Round 1 (The 3-panel inspection triptych layout (`Original | Extracted Mask | Derived Empty Room`) and the held naturally empty modernist rooms (`27f75a9f` and `b2e97ba8`).).\n", "builder_note": "Round 2 v2 assembly passes all structural and visual proof-strip checks (issues = 0).", "packet": { "sheet": "img/critic-r2-sheet.jpg", "transcript": "critic/round2.txt", "note": "8-frame v2 temporal proof strip after falsifiable repair" } } ], "repairs": [ "Clamp `058430e4` strictly to its continuous interior living-room shot (`3.6s-11.6s`, `custom_window=True`) AND upgrade `build_erasure_shot` to combine motion differencing with spatial figure silhouette segmentation (`person_box=[0.30, 0.16, 0.72, 0.90]`) + OpenCV Telea inpainting so the woman is completely erased from the armchair in Pass 2 (`derived`) and Pass 4 (`triptych` right panel) while the armchair, lamp, and room remain intact." ], "notes": { "worked": [ "The 3-panel inspection triptych layout (`Original | Extracted Mask | Derived Empty Room`) and the held naturally empty modernist rooms (`27f75a9f` and `b2e97ba8`).", "Automated frame-difference window scanning isolated 4 continuous single-camera windows with zero internal source cuts." ], "failed": [ "Seg #02 (t=03.50s-12.00s): `058430e4` cuts internally from a night exterior to a seated woman in an armchair.", "Seg #04 (t=19.50s-28.00s) & Seg #07 (t=42.50s-51.00s): Because the seated woman barely moves, temporal-median subtraction alone leaves her visible inside the armchair." ], "open": [ "Audio envelopes were balanced from dBFS measurements; human ear screening at 24 fps remains the final step before release.", "Also included in the complete 85-film mobile screening room at ../../studio/index.html#film=BROLL_01_Nobody_Home." ] }, "extras": [ { "title": "Mobile Screening Room & Complete 85-Film Argon Slate", "html": "

This work is part of the 85-film ALLWAYS \u00b7 ARGON archival slate (all 12 B-Roll works, 6 Studies, 5 Collections, and all 59 SCION operators 055\u2013113). Screen all 85 films with interactive cut scrubbing and 1-click prompt copying in the Argon Mobile Screening Room \u2197 or open the standalone BROLL_01_Nobody_Home workbench page \u2197.

", "images": [ { "src": "img/critic-r1-sheet.jpg", "caption": "Round 1 (v1) temporal proof strip prior to Critic Tribunal repair." }, { "src": "img/critic-r2-sheet.jpg", "caption": "Round 2 (v2) verified temporal proof strip after falsifiable repair (issues = 0)." } ] } ], "files": [ { "path": "edl.json", "label": "edit decision list: every shot window, phase, NEARMATCH bridge, and action" }, { "path": "ledger.json", "label": "complete manifest, source citations, and Critic Tribunal record" }, { "path": "brief.md", "label": "work brief, primary SCION operator theorem, and ethical boundary contract" } ] }