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The Sign of Four · Beat 136 · permalink

Private office

46:43–47:40 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 47:0847:08Frame at 47:3647:36

Play from 46:43 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 54 · shots 281–282. 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 in dark suit and bow tie, balding, middle-aged visible, audible
  • man in light-colored suit and tie, clean-shaven, middle-aged visible, audible
Also said
“He won't leave without the Rajputana pearls.” 47:28 · “Mordecai Smith.” 47:39
Seen
lamp, desk, suit, bow tie
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and analytical; themes: criminal strategy, revenge, escape planning; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, confined interior space

Two men converse in an interior setting; one speaks about a one-legged criminal's escape plan and the Rajputana pearls. The dialogue references a rope and Mordecai Smith, and mentions the criminal's 20-year prison wait for revenge.

“I found it on the roof.” 46:44 · “But with only one leg, this isn't easy.” 47:00 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 47:08 (passage 46:43–47:40); US record: No renewal found

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