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The Sign of Four · Beat 141 · permalink

Private office

49:37–49:41 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 49:3949:39

Play from 49:37 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 58 · shots 290–290. 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, light shirt, medium build, early middle age visible
  • man with dark hair, wearing hat, partially obscured visible
  • woman with light hair, wearing dark coat, standing close to p1 visible
  • man in background, wearing hat, face partially visible visible
Seen
wooden door [frame:1], hat [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, mystery; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, period costume, crowded framing

A group of people are gathered in a dimly lit interior space, with one man in a suit facing others who appear to be in conversation or confrontation. No names or spoken dialogue are provided in this beat.

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 49:39 (passage 49:37–49:41); US record: No renewal found

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