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The piece box
Alsothe box; the wooden box; the lid
The instructor's felt-lined wooden piece box, open by the clock: every captured piece goes in, the film falls into it at 20:00, and the inside of its lid, with a stitched x R and a breathing card, is the sky of the boy's opera house.
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- E4 dashed: not released yet
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The instructor's box, where captured pieces go. "Where do they go?" "In the box." At 20:00 the whole film falls into it, through the felt and the stitches of an x R in its lid, and the boy's imagination builds an opera house inside.
What4 lines
- On screenWooden, felt-lined, open at the board's right edge by the clock. {E4 3:29-3:35} edit
- On screenInside the lid: a cross-stitched x R, cornflower on linen, its centre stitch the one warm #FFC870 stitch. {E4 20:17-20:23; 26:05; S28} edit
- On screenA hand-lettered breathing card taped beside the stitching: WHEN SCARED: 12 IN - 24 HOLD - 24 OUT - 10 HOLD. {E4 20:23.5-20:27} edit
- RunningHis since childhood, with the plastic rook in it. {E4 MASTER_TREATMENT §1} edit
By episode8 lines
- On screenThe first capture, 4.dxe5, is set into it; the camera follows to its dark mouth. {E4 3:29-3:35} edit
- On screen"Where do they go?" "In the box." "And then?" "...That's a good question." {E4 3:32.36-3:40} edit
- On screenAt 20:00 the film falls into it with the twelve captured pieces, through the felt, the stitches (giant ropes) and the wood. {E4 20:01.5-20:40} edit
- On screenThe mother, far above, through wood: "Ten more minutes. Then bed." {E4 20:01.50} edit
- On screenThe lid's underside is the box world's ceiling. {E4 21:43} edit
- On screenThe lid opens about its hinge at 26:05; real lamp light pours in; the boy's hand lifts the old rook out. {E4 26:05-26:12} edit
- On screenThe boy sweeps the Opera pieces into it. {E4 26:50} edit
- On screenThe plastic rook waits in it among the wooden pieces. {E4 S28} edit
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On screen Belongs to Daniel Fenn, the instructor; holds the The plastic rook; its inside is the The opera house of the captured. {E4 S28; S22} edit -
Egg Its stitch points at Rosie and Rosie's sampler; its card is the The breathing card, Noor Haddad's words. {E4 S22; E4-EGG-13; E4-EGG-21} edit -
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Must stay true1 line
- RunningThe warm stitch never comes out; nobody reads the card's numbers aloud. {E4 QUOTABLES Q-E4-30} edit