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The brass clock
Alsothe two-dial clock; the chess clock; the clock nobody stopped
The instructor's brass two-dial chess clock, set to fifteen minutes each: the film's spine, whose two faces always add up to the time left in the film; his flag falls at 20:00 with his fingertip on the rook, and nobody ever stops it.
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Episode 4 is built on this clock: its two dials always add up to the time left in the film. Its first sound is a press, its flag falls at 20:00 with the teacher's fingertip on the mating rook, nobody stops it, and in the end black it slows into a heartbeat.
What5 lines
- On screenBrass, two faces, red flags, plungers; no maker's name. {E4 0:00; S28} edit
- On screenSet to fifteen minutes each:
Time: 15 min each. {E4 0:22-0:29} edit - On screenWhite + Black = 30:00 minus the film's time on every frame from 0:10 to 20:00; after 20:00 Black's dial alone reads 30:00 minus t. {E4 0:10-30:00} edit
- On screenWhite's tock and Black's tick are the bed of the film: you can always hear whose time it is. {E4 0:00-30:00} edit
- RunningHis since childhood, and the clock of Board 14. {E4 MASTER_TREATMENT §1} edit
By episode14 lines
- On screenIts macro opens the film: White's dial, brass dust, the tail of a press; the moth's shadow crosses at 0:07.40-0:08.35. {E4 0:00-0:10} edit
- On screen"We'll use the clock." {E4 0:16.00} edit
- On screen"Time isn't a piece." "It's the only thing you both have the same amount of." {E4 6:36-6:51} edit
- On screenPresses land exactly on 5:00.000, 10:00.000 and 15:00.000. {E4 5:00; 10:00; 15:00} edit
- On screenThe boy first looks at it at 8.Nc3; its dials fill the board window. {E4 S07} edit
- On screen"You have four minutes." "That's a lot." {E4 15:00} edit
- On screen"Then I'll lose on time." {E4 18:06} edit
- On screenWhite's flag falls at 20:00.000 with the teacher's fingertip on the rook. {E4 20:00.000} edit
- On screenIn the boy's imagination a crayon twin-bell alarm clock shaped like it reads Black's exact time and rings at 20:40: the only bell in the film. {E4 4:34; 20:40} edit
- On screenThe alarm card reads 5:00 exactly on 25:00.000, standing on the Duke's box ledge. {E4 25:00.000} edit
- On screenNobody stops it; at the real table White reads 0:00, its flag down, and Black runs. {E4 26:15-29:30} edit
- On screenThe moth lands on Black's flag on the last picture frame. {E4 29:59.967} edit
- On screenBlack's flag falls at 30:00.000: one small click that changes nothing. {E4 30:00.000} edit
- On screenIn the end black it ticks on and slows into a heartbeat (64 to 50 bpm); at 30:19.9 a press starts White's clock, the first sound of 0:00. {E4 30:00-30:20} edit
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Egg The series' five-minute clock made a real clock: the The Storm Bell's tolls, Nightbot's chime and Rosie's check-ins before it. {E4 5:00-20:00; EGGS_SWEEP} edit -
Egg The cream moth (The paper moth (Episode 4), the echo of The moth) lands on its flag. {E4 29:59.967; E4-EGG-18} edit -
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- RunningBrass, two faces, red flags; nobody ever stops it; the arithmetic is exact on any paused frame. {E4 QUOTABLES Q-E4-01} edit