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The Sign of Four · Beat 155 · permalink

Living room

54:33–54:55 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 54:4054:40Frame at 54:4954:49Frame at 54:5354:53

Play from 54:33 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 64 · shots 310–312. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark suit, mustache, standing visible, audible
  • woman with blonde bobbed hair, wearing a dark sweater, seated visible, audible
Also said
“It seems an eternity since this morning.” 54:48 · “wiped today clean out of your memories.” 54:53
Seen
lamp, sofa, curtains, wall sconce
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and weary; themes: security, exhaustion, emotional burden; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, intimate framing

A man and a woman are in a dimly lit room; the man speaks about security arrangements while the woman listens. The transcript indicates they discuss officers stationed outside and downstairs, and the woman reflects on the long day.

“Just inspecting your guard.” 54:36 · “Does that give you a feeling of protection?” 54:45 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 54:40 (passage 54:33–54:55); US record: No renewal found

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