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The Sign of Four · Beat 109 · permalink

Street

34:55–35:11 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:0035:00Frame at 35:0835:08

Play from 34:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 218–219. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark cape and hat, seen from back visible
  • man in suit and hat, facing p1 visible
  • woman in light dress, standing between p1 and p2 visible
  • person visible in background behind gate visible
Seen happening
  • Three people stand near a vehicle at night; one wears a cape. [frame:1]
  • The group remains standing; the man in the cape faces the others. [frame:2]
Seen
vintage automobile [frame:1], metal gate [frame:1], cape [frame:2], hat [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: suspenseful; themes: suspense, nocturnal encounter; style notes: low-key lighting, static medium shots, period costume

Two people stand near a vehicle at night; one is in a cape. A third person is visible in the background near a gate. The transcript contains repeated 'Wait' commands.

“Wait.” 35:03 · “Wait.” 35:06 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 35:00 (passage 34:55–35:11); US record: No renewal found

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