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The Sign of Four · Beat 153 · permalink

Private office

53:41–54:02 Registered 1932

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Frame at 53:5253:52

Play from 53:41 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 62 · shots 308–308. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man seated, wearing a short-sleeved collared shirt, appears middle-aged, medium build visible
  • man standing, wearing a dark coat and a hat, appears middle-aged, lean build visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a coat stands over a seated man in a dim room. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'm gonna have them all.” 53:54 · “Pearls are under the trace.” 53:57
Seen
hat [frame:1], coat [frame:1], collared shirt [frame:1], chair [frame:1], desk or table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: crime, confrontation, theft, escape; style notes: low-key lighting, medium close-up, static framing, high contrast black and white

Two men are in a dim interior; one seated, one standing over him, during a tense exchange about pearls and escape. The transcript includes demands for silence, threats, and a plan to leave with stolen goods.

“Cops and plain clothes, we're all over the place.” 53:43 · “Let Morrison keep their pearls. Let's take what we've got to notice. Shut up! Crack them up!” 53:49 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 53:52 (passage 53:41–54:02); US record: No renewal found

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