Exhibit B: Synchronization Log, Nov 1928

Torn page recovered from a sound-stage logbook, dated November 1928 — the very weeks the industry was learning to make pictures talk.

The relevant entries, transcribed exactly:

9:15 AM — sync test, reel two. Subject present. 10:40 AM — subject refused to speak. 10:55 AM — [REDACTED] advised alternative arrangements. 2:00 PM — whistle test satisfactory. Proceeding with whistle.

Four lines, and a career of silence explained. Refused to speak. The log does not say could not. The log says refused — and then, fifteen minutes later, someone whose name is inked out of the record recommended “alternative arrangements,” and the most famous mouse in the world became a whistler.

What was he asked to say? The Regime has a theory. The biographers have the paperwork. The testimony has the rest.

CHAIN OF CUSTODY: acquired at auction, lot 237, mislabeled “miscellaneous studio ephemera.” It is not miscellaneous. Nothing is miscellaneous.