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The Sign of Four · Beat 13 · permalink

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3:49–4:18 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 4:044:04

Play from 3:49 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 7 · shots 24–24. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other) evidence: frame:1
People
  • wearing a hat and coat, bent over, seen from behind visible
  • wearing a hat and coat, bent over, seen from behind visible
Seen happening
  • Two figures in hats and coats are bent over near a brick wall. [frame:1]
Also said
“that is free.” 3:54 · “perfect five” 3:57
Seen
brick wall [frame:1], hats [frame:1], coats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or curious; themes: mystery, collaboration, urban setting; style notes: low-key lighting, tight framing on two figures, grainy black-and-white film

Two figures in hats and coats are bent over near a brick wall in a dimly lit scene. No names are spoken, and no objects or text are visible beyond the wall and their clothing.

“The one?” 3:51 · “Cool.” 3:53 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 4:04 (passage 3:49–4:18); US record: No renewal found

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