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The Sign of Four · Beat 111 · permalink

Living room

35:39–35:45 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 1 quote checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 35:4235:42

Play from 35:39 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 223–223. 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 in light-colored suit and hat, seen from back visible
  • man in dark coat and bowler hat, facing p1 visible
  • woman in dark dress and hat, standing between p2 and p4 visible
  • man in dark coat and bowler hat, standing right visible
Seen happening
  • A group of people stands near a doorway. [frame:1]
Seen
doorway [frame:1], hats (bowler and others) [frame:1], coats and suits [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: neutral, domestic; themes: homecoming, group interaction; style notes: static medium shot, studio lighting, black-and-white film

A group of people stands near a doorway in an interior setting. One person says, "It's home."

“It's home.” 35:41 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 35:42 (passage 35:39–35:45); US record: No renewal found

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