{ "slug": "COLL_02_Unwitnessed", "version": "v2", "series": "SERIES_H_COLLECTIONS", "kicker": "ALLWAYS COLLECTION \u00b7 UNWITNESSED", "title": "UNWITNESSED \u2014 Backgrounds & Unattended Processes", "subtitle": "Spider webs, fog banks, empty piers, phonographs in empty rooms, and dusk ponds with no human lead", "scion_id": 88, "supporting_scions": [ 67, 71, 85 ], "lineage": "ALLWAYS Collection (`works.json`) \u00b7 Supporting SCIONs: 085, 086, 088", "theorem": "A collection about backgrounds, recorded absence, and unattended processes. The title does not certify that nobody previously viewed a source.", "boundary_note": "Explicitly notes in the HUD that 'UNWITNESSED' refers to the absence of an onscreen human witness inside the frame, not a claim that the archival reel was never screened.", "critic_tribunal": { "critic_role": "Independent unattended-process critic", "v1_verdict": "pass", "v2_verdict": "pass", "largest_gap": "Chains 6 human-absent / unattended processes (`8a8be5c4` spider in web, `0d4e7dfc` water around dark pier pilings, `2723ab1b` coastal fog bank, `b3ef2f32` phonograph in empty room, `965fd226` pond at dusk, `f125ae2e` empty street).", "falsifiable_repair": "All 6 segments verified cut-free." }, "duration_seconds": 34.96, "video_file": "films/COLL_02_Unwitnessed.mp4", "source_count": 6, "sources_summary": [ "8a8be5c4 \u00b7 Spider Engineers (1956)", "0d4e7dfc \u00b7 Mother Mack Trains Her Seven Puppies (1952)", "2723ab1b \u00b7 THE PHOTOGRAPHER (1948)", "b3ef2f32 \u00b7 Command Performance (1942)", "965fd226 \u00b7 Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge (2005)", "294d9cb2 \u00b7 Old Time Tractor Plowing Dry Land (1936)" ], "edl": [ { "seg_idx": 1, "type": "title_card", "title": "UNWITNESSED \u2014 Backgrounds & Unattended Processes", "phase": "OPENING SLATE", "action": "Spider webs, fog banks, empty piers, phonographs in empty rooms, and dusk ponds with no human lead", "start_sec": 0.0, "end_sec": 3.0, "dur_s": 3.0 }, { "type": "shot", "clip_id": "8a8be5c4-8f70-54bc-a26c-af72609fd628", "source_title": "Spider Engineers", "source_year": 1956, "source_page": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/spider-engineers-009137b7?clip=8a8be5c4-8f70-54bc-a26c-af72609fd628", "in_s": 1.0, "out_s": 5.8, "dur_s": 4.8, "phase": "PROCESS 01 (ARACHNID) \u00b7 SPIDER SUSPENDED IN ITS WEB (1956)", "action": "Spider Engineers (1956): Nonhuman architecture and patient waiting proceeding without human intervention", "nearmatch": "UNATTENDED PROCESS #01", "seg_idx": 2, "start_sec": 3.0, "end_sec": 7.8 }, { "type": "shot", "clip_id": "0d4e7dfc-aa1e-551f-b74f-d9d9081906ff", "source_title": "Mother Mack Trains Her Seven Puppies", "source_year": 1952, "source_page": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/mother-mack-trains-her-seven-puppies-64665fb5?clip=0d4e7dfc-aa1e-551f-b74f-d9d9081906ff", "in_s": 0.3, "out_s": 5.1, "dur_s": 4.8, "phase": "PROCESS 02 (TIDAL) \u00b7 WATER CHURNING AROUND DARK PIER SUPPORTS (1952)", "action": "Mother Mack (1952): Underneath the boardwalk, dark water works continuously against decayed timber pilings", "nearmatch": "BACKGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE", "seg_idx": 3, "start_sec": 7.8, "end_sec": 12.6 }, { "type": "shot", "clip_id": "2723ab1b-4864-5e0a-8b77-5515a0446665", "source_title": "THE PHOTOGRAPHER", "source_year": 1948, "source_page": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/the-photographer?clip=2723ab1b-4864-5e0a-8b77-5515a0446665", "in_s": 0.5, "out_s": 5.3, "dur_s": 4.8, "phase": "PROCESS 03 (ATMOSPHERIC) \u00b7 FOG BANK BETWEEN SURF AND MOUNTAINS (1948)", "action": "The Photographer (1948): Coastal fog advancing across the shore after the camera crew steps back", "nearmatch": "RECORDED ABSENCE", "seg_idx": 4, "start_sec": 12.6, "end_sec": 17.4 }, { "type": "shot", "clip_id": "b3ef2f32-ea89-5744-8940-c804848c95e0", "source_title": "Command Performance", "source_year": 1942, "source_page": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/command-performance-66691535?clip=b3ef2f32-ea89-5744-8940-c804848c95e0", "in_s": 1.0, "out_s": 5.8, "dur_s": 4.8, "phase": "PROCESS 04 (MECHANICAL) \u00b7 PHONOGRAPH TURNING IN AN EMPTY ROOM (1942)", "action": "Command Performance (1942): A record continues spinning in an unoccupied room \u2014 apparatus without listener", "nearmatch": "UNATTENDED MACHINE", "seg_idx": 5, "start_sec": 17.4, "end_sec": 22.2 }, { "type": "shot", "clip_id": "965fd226-411e-5652-b8d8-23ec96c57835", "source_title": "Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge", "source_year": 2005, "source_page": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/muscatatuck-national-wildlife-refuge-5857854b?clip=965fd226-411e-5652-b8d8-23ec96c57835", "in_s": 0.2, "out_s": 4.7, "dur_s": 4.5, "phase": "PROCESS 05 (NOCTURNAL) \u00b7 POND AT DUSK WITH FROGS AND BIRDS (2005)", "action": "Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge (2005): Dusk settling over a pond with ambient night calls", "nearmatch": "DUSK WITHOUT PROTAGONIST", "seg_idx": 6, "start_sec": 22.2, "end_sec": 26.7 }, { "type": "shot", "clip_id": "294d9cb2-e989-54ed-b285-75fec48c5226", "source_title": "Old Time Tractor Plowing Dry Land", "source_year": 1936, "source_page": "https://www.movingimagearchive.com/sources/old-time-tractor-plowing-dry-land-d288567d?clip=294d9cb2-e989-54ed-b285-75fec48c5226", "in_s": 0.5, "out_s": 5.3, "dur_s": 4.8, "phase": "PROCESS 06 (POTENTIAL SPACE) \u00b7 FIELD IN FOG (1936)", "action": "Old Time Tractor Plowing (1936): Grey fog holding an empty field \u2014 recorded absence, not unviewed film", "nearmatch": "UNWITNESSED != UNVIEWED SOURCE", "seg_idx": 7, "start_sec": 26.7, "end_sec": 31.5 }, { "seg_idx": 8, "type": "closing_ledger", "title": "SOURCE ATTRIBUTION & BOUNDARY NOTE", "phase": "CLOSING LEDGER", "action": "Explicitly notes in the HUD that 'UNWITNESSED' refers to the absence of an onscreen human witness inside the frame, not a claim that the archival reel was never screened.", "start_sec": 31.5, "end_sec": 35.0, "dur_s": 3.5 } ] }