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The Sign of Four · Beat 146 · permalink

Bar

50:31–51:31 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 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 51:0151:01

Play from 50:31 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 59 · shots 297–297. 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 cap and dark coat, seated at bar visible, audible
  • man with curly hair, seated at bar, facing p1 visible, audible
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], cap [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conversational; themes: mystery, negotiation, identity; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, period costume visible

Two men sit at a bar counter in a dimly lit interior, conversing while one holds a glass; the dialogue references a one-legged stranger and a name 'Aurora'. No on-screen text or clear period indicators are visible.

“named after me. Aurora. Aurora? You didn't like it. Oh, I like it. Oh, you like it? Oh, go on, you old gun.” 50:52 · “You wouldn't know him anyhow, 'cause he's a stranger. He's only got one leg.” 51:22 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 51:01 (passage 50:31–51:31); US record: No renewal found

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