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The Sign of Four · Beat 149 · permalink

Bar

52:17–52:34 Registered 1932

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Frame at 52:2652:26

Play from 52:17 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 300–300. 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 wearing a cap, seated at bar visible
  • man standing behind bar, wearing dark coat visible
  • man seated at bar, back to camera visible
  • man in dark coat, standing near bar visible
  • Harold (named at t:52:25): man in cap, seated at bar, facing right visible, audible
Seen happening
  • Men are seated and standing around a bar. [frame:1]
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], glasses and bottles on bar [frame:1], caps worn by men [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly mocking; themes: social observation, aging, male camaraderie; style notes: black-and-white, medium shot, dim lighting with high contrast, typical of 1930s studio interiors

A group of men are gathered around a bar in a dimly lit interior. One man speaks about another's behavior, referencing his age and flirtatiousness.

“No bust, so no veer.” 52:19 · “Did you see that, Harold? He don't fancy himself, does he? One foot in the grave and still flirting.” 52:25 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 52:26 (passage 52:17–52:34); US record: No renewal found

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