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The Sign of Four · Beat 85 · permalink

Living room

24:27–24:33 Registered 1932

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Frame at 24:2924:29Frame at 24:3224:32

Play from 24:27 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 44 · shots 151–152. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, mustache, dark suit, seated, facing right visible, audible
  • woman, dark cloche hat with white accent, light blouse, seated, facing left visible
  • man, dark suit, standing, facing seated pair visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a dark suit stands while a seated man and woman face each other. [frame:1]
  • The seated man and woman are shown in closer view, looking at each other. [frame:2]
Seen
{'item': 'lamp with white shade', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'curtains', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'armchair', 'frame': 1}, {'item': 'cloche hat with white accent', 'frame': 2}
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: social interaction, departure, unspoken motives; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, studio set

A man in a suit stands while a seated man and woman converse in a dimly lit room; dialogue suggests the standing man is about to leave. The seated man responds with a rhetorical question about depriving someone of the pleasure of offering assistance.

“Perhaps I'd better go.” 24:29 · “And deprive it of the pleasure of offering the assistance you came to seek?” 24:29 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 24:29 (passage 24:27–24:33); US record: No renewal found

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