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The Sign of Four · Beat 112 · permalink

Private office

35:45–36:04 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 35:4835:48Frame at 35:5335:53Frame at 35:5935:59Frame at 36:0236:02

Play from 35:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 51 · shots 224–228. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark coat, seen from behind, ascending stairs visible
  • Mrs. Adyed (named at t:35:50): woman in dark dress, standing on stairs, holding railing visible
  • person in dark coat, seen from side, moving toward doorway visible
  • person in dark coat, seen from behind, near table visible
  • Samantha (named at t:35:52): unseen, voice heard audible
Seen happening
  • A person in a dark coat walks up a staircase. [frame:1]
  • A woman stands on the stairs, holding the railing. [frame:2]
  • A person in a dark coat moves toward a doorway. [frame:3]
  • A person in a dark coat stands near a table. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on, Samantha.” 35:52 · “I can't get me off of them in the musty room.” 35:53
Seen
staircase [frame:1], railing [frame:2], table [frame:4], dark coat [frame:1], dark dress [frame:2]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: suspense, confrontation, interior drama; style notes: black-and-white, high-contrast lighting, static camera angles, medium shots emphasizing character movement and reaction

A person in a dark coat ascends a staircase while others react with alarm; a woman is heard calling out and urging someone named Samantha to move. The setting is an interior with a grand staircase and dim lighting.

“Oh, my God.” 35:45 · “Mrs. Adyed.” 35:50 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 35:48 (passage 35:45–36:04); US record: No renewal found

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