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The Sign of Four · Beat 142 · permalink

Bar

49:41–49:55 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 49:4449:44Frame at 49:5149:51

Play from 49:41 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 291–292. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bar (bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a dark cap and coat, standing, medium build visible
  • man seated at table, balding, wearing suit, holding glass visible
  • man seated at table, wearing bow tie and cap, older visible
  • woman seated at bar, dark hair, wearing dark top visible
  • man behind bar, wearing cap, serving visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cap stands at a table where two other men are seated with drinks. [frame:1]
  • A woman sits at the bar counter while a man in a cap stands nearby; bottles and glasses are on the bar. [frame:2]
Seen
bar counter [frame:2], glasses with dark liquid [frame:1], bottles on bar [frame:2], wooden table [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual and social; themes: social gathering, public drinking establishment; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast black-and-white, typical of early 1930s studio lighting

A man in a cap stands at a bar counter while another man sits at a table with drinks. A woman is seated at the bar, and other patrons are visible in the background.

“oh” 49:43 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 49:44 (passage 49:41–49:55); US record: No renewal found

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