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The Sign of Four · Beat 110 · permalink

Garden

35:11–35:39 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:1335:13Frame at 35:2535:25Frame at 35:3735:37

Play from 35:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 220–222. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
garden (other, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • Mr. Thaddeus (named at t:35:14): man in dark coat and bowler hat, medium build visible, audible
  • woman in dark coat and cloche hat, holding a small object visible, audible
  • man in dark coat and fedora, partially visible visible
  • Mr. Sadio (named at t:35:13): man in dark coat and bowler hat, standing behind p1 visible
  • woman with light hair, partially visible behind p1 visible
Seen happening
  • A man walks toward a gate in a garden. [frame:2]
  • A man and a woman stand close together, looking at each other. [frame:3]
Also said
“You're not frightened?” 35:34 · “Terribly.” 35:36
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], fedora [frame:1], gate [frame:2], cloche hat [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and intimate; themes: romantic tension, nocturnal encounter, social formality; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costumes

A man and a woman are seen in an outdoor setting at night; the man speaks to the woman, who responds that she is frightened but also thrilled. Other figures are present in the background of one shot.

“All right, Mr. Thaddeus.” 35:14 · “That's all right, my mother. Good night.” 35:28 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 35:13 (passage 35:11–35:39); US record: No renewal found

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