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The Sign of Four · Beat 147 · permalink

Bar

51:31–52:02 Registered 1932

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Frame at 51:4751:47

Play from 51:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 60 · shots 298–298. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seen from back, wearing dark coat and flat cap visible
  • man facing camera, wearing dark jacket, speaking with expressive face visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Two men are seated at a bar counter, one facing the other. [frame:1]
Also said
“The Florence Bee? That's not.” 51:53 · “You old old wrecker. Come away with your waste in my time.” 51:53
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], glass of water [frame:1], bottles on shelves [frame:1], flat cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and frustrated; themes: conflict, negotiation, disappointment; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing, period costume

Two men are at a bar counter; one speaks about payment and a delayed switch, while the other responds with frustration and mentions a boat and 'Florence Bee.' No names are spoken that identify either man.

“Why, he's paid him a week's money already and he ain't done the switch yet.” 51:37 · “See, I'll never know the one in a better one. Oh, will you? You'll find a better one, me lad.” 51:53 automatic transcript, may be wrong

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 51:47 (passage 51:31–52:02); US record: No renewal found

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