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The Sign of Four · Beat 140 · permalink

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49:32–49:37 Registered 1932

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Frame at 49:3549:35

Play from 49:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 57 · shots 289–289. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark coat and a cap, leaning over a table visible
  • man in a cap and dark coat, standing at the table visible
  • man in a cap and dark coat, standing behind p2 visible
  • man in a cap and dark coat, embracing another man in the background visible
  • man being embraced by p4, wearing a cap and dark coat visible
Seen
table [frame:1], papers [frame:1], caps [frame:1], dark coats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or serious; themes: group gathering, document review, emotional reunion; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, static framing, period costume

A group of men in caps and dark coats gather around a table in a dim interior. One man leans over papers while others stand nearby, some embracing.

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 49:35 (passage 49:32–49:37); US record: No renewal found

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