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The Sign of Four · Beat 21 · permalink

Newsroom

5:34–5:42 Registered 1932

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Frame at 5:385:38

Play from 5:34 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 13 · shots 36–36. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
newsroom (newsroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
newspaper
On screen
ESCAPED ANDAMAN CONVICTS No news has been received of the one-legged prisoner Jonathan Small, who escaped a month ago from the Andaman settlement with another prisoner, Meade Bailey. A thorough search is still being made for these two men, as they are known to be desperate criminals. Small was serving a life sentence for murder, but Bailey had only a few more months' imprisonment to undergo. —REUTER
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: informative; themes: crime, media, justice; style notes: static close-up of printed text, high contrast, no human presence

A newspaper headline reports escaped convicts, with text mentioning Jonathan Small and Bailey. No people are visible or audible in this beat.

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 5:38 (passage 5:34–5:42); US record: No renewal found

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