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The Sign of Four · Beat 12 · permalink

Private office

3:36–3:49 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 3:423:42

Play from 3:36 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 6 · shots 23–23. 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
  • man with mustache, wearing striped shirt and tie, seated visible
  • man with receding hairline, wearing dark shirt, leaning forward visible
Seen happening
  • Two men are positioned closely, one leaning toward the other who is seated. [frame:1]
Also said
“seven aloft.” 3:40
Seen
striped shirt and tie [frame:1], dark shirt [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or focused; themes: conversation, indoor confrontation; style notes: close framing, high contrast lighting, black-and-white film

Two men are shown in close proximity, one seated and one leaning over him, in what appears to be an indoor setting. No names are spoken, and no objects or text are clearly identifiable beyond their clothing and posture.

“Free brick.” 3:36 · “That is...” 3:39 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 3:42 (passage 3:36–3:49); US record: No renewal found

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