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The Sign of Four · Beat 144 · permalink

Bar

50:05–50:13 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 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 50:0950:09

Play from 50:05 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 59 · shots 294–294. 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 uniform and cap, visible from side visible
  • woman with dark hair, wearing dark clothing, seated visible
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], bottles [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, authority; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in a uniform gestures toward a seated woman across a bar counter; bottles and glasses are on the counter. The scene is indoors and lit by artificial light.

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 50:09 (passage 50:05–50:13); US record: No renewal found

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