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The Sign of Four · Beat 143 · permalink

Bar

49:55–50:05 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 3 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 50:0050:00

Play from 49:55 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 293–293. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(bar, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark uniform, seated at counter, back to camera visible
  • man in dark jacket and cap, standing behind counter, facing p1 visible
  • man in light jacket, standing behind counter, facing p1 visible
Seen
counter [frame:1], glassware [frame:1], bottles on shelves [frame:1], sign on wall [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or transactional; themes: service interaction, uniformed authority, interior setting; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, typical of early 1930s studio production

A man in uniform sits at a counter in a dimly lit interior while two other men stand behind it; one appears to be serving. No dialogue is present 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 50:00 (passage 49:55–50:05); US record: No renewal found

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