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The Sign of Four · Beat 115 · permalink

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36:30–36:36 Registered 1932

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Frame at 36:3336:33

Play from 36:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 52 · shots 231–231. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • silhouetted, wearing dark clothing, appears to be climbing or moving upward visible
  • silhouetted, standing, possibly observing visible
  • silhouetted, partially visible, standing near a vertical structure visible
Seen happening
  • A figure moves upward along a structure while others stand nearby. [frame:1]
Seen
vertical structure or ladder [frame:1], silhouetted figures [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, shadowy; themes: movement in darkness, observed action; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, silhouetted figures, static framing

A dimly lit interior scene shows several silhouetted figures in motion. One figure appears to be climbing or moving up a structure while others stand nearby.

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 36:33 (passage 36:30–36:36); US record: No renewal found

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