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A public Senate committee hearing room in Washington on 16 July 1973: dark wood desks and dais, pale stone pilasters, upholstered chairs and floor cables, with the gallery reduced to shallow-focus forms. Butterfield’s chair seat supports his body; its legs meet the hearing-room floor behind the witness desk. Thompson’s right hand encloses his microphone stem while its base rests on his desk. Butterfield’s microphone base rests on the witness desk; its cable follows the desktop and drops behind the desk. The television camera locks onto its pedestal; all pedestal wheels meet the floor and its lens axis terminates at Butterfield. The operator’s hands close around the pan handles and both shoes meet the floor behind the pedestal. Ervin sits physically behind and above Butterfield on the supported dais, facing the witness. Butterfield’s seated floor-to-crown height is approximately 1.3 m; the desktop is about 0.75 m high and the camera body about 0.6 m long. It is 16 July 1973: Dark early-1970s business suits, white shirts and restrained ties for Butterfield, Thompson and Ervin; operator in plain period work clothes.; Dark wood, wool suiting, woven upholstery, matte painted camera housing, brushed microphone metal, rubber cable and carpet.; Box-bodied analog television camera on a wheeled pedestal, wired desk microphones, thick broadcast cables and 1973 congressional hearing furniture.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "Controlled public procedure at the instant private knowledge becomes public evidence.. 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