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The Sign of Four · Beat 148 · permalink

Bar

52:02–52:17 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 52:1052:10

Play from 52:02 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 60 · shots 299–299. 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
  • wearing a dark beret and coat, gesturing toward bottles visible
  • wearing a light-colored cap and dark coat, standing behind bar visible
  • wearing dark clothing, seated at bar, facing away from camera visible
Seen
bar counter [frame:1], glass bottles [frame:1], glasses [frame:1], barrel [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or focused; themes: social gathering, bar interaction; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, typical of early sound-era cinema

A group of people are gathered around a bar counter in a dimly lit interior space. One person gestures toward bottles while others look on; no dialogue is provided for this segment.

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 52:10 (passage 52:02–52:17); US record: No renewal found

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