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The Sign of Four · Beat 151 · permalink

Bedroom

53:00–53:17 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 53:0953:09

Play from 53:00 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 61 · shots 305–305. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
bedroom (bedroom, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • lying down, possibly in bed, dark clothing or shadowed visible
  • partially visible on left, standing or leaning, dark silhouette visible
Seen happening
  • A person is lying in a bed or bunk in a dimly lit room. [frame:1]
  • Another figure is partially visible to the left of the bed. [frame:1]
Also said
“Gotta sleep again.” 53:05
Seen
bed or bunk [frame:1], window or glass panel above bed [frame:1], dark curtain or fabric behind bed [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense or weary; themes: isolation, rest, protection; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, static framing, confined space

A dimly lit interior scene shows a person lying in a bed or bunk, with another figure partially visible to the left. The transcript includes fragmented dialogue about wrapping friends around oneself and sleeping again.

“Well...” 53:01 · “Wrap a couple of your friends around yourself and keep your wall.” 53:02 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 53:09 (passage 53:00–53:17); US record: No renewal found

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