The video seems to take place early in history, perhaps in the early 1900's. The way the characters dressed portrayed where in the timeline they were from because they dressed as the founding father's of the U.S history. The film was in color which meant that it was made later in the 1900's, but still wanting to demonstrate the story in a movie story line. In the film the colors seemed dim as symbolizing a darkness inside Bartleby, almost as if he were in a giant hole he couldn't get out of and had the slightest light. At Bartleby's Desk it was the room with less light and for a good reason he was a mysterious figure throughout the film. Bartleby came in for a job and he did his job then quit, which leads me to believe that at some point in
