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20:40–20:46 Registered 1932

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20:43

Play from 20:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

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Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 37 · shots 115–115. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place: other (other)
Seen: handwritten note
On screen: You have been deeply wronged. Come to 133 Acacia Road tonight at 9. If you are distrustful bring two friends but do not bring the police if you do all will be as seen. Your unknown friend.
Interpretation: Model opinion, not evidence: mood: mysterious; themes: mystery, secret communication; style notes: Close-up on handwritten text; high contrast, grainy film quality typical of early 1930s cinema.

A handwritten note is shown, instructing the recipient to come to 133 Acacia Road at 9 and not to bring the police. No people, objects, or events beyond the note are visible or mentioned 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 20:43 (passage 20:40–20:46); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b69.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b69"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/The_Sign_OF_Four/0115.webp" alt="Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 20:43 (passage 20:40–20:46); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Sign of Four (1932), 20:40–20:46. Internet Archive copy The_Sign_OF_Four; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "The Sign of Four (1932), 20:40–20:46", https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b69, from Internet Archive item The_Sign_OF_Four, retrieved 6 September 2026.

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