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The Sign of Four · Beat 159 · permalink

Living room

56:14–56:36 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 56:1656:16Frame at 56:1956:19Frame at 56:3156:31Frame at 56:3556:35

Play from 56:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 324–328. 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
  • older man, white beard, wearing dark coat and cap, seated on couch visible
  • Arseney Jones (named at t:56:18): man in dark suit and tie, standing, with prominent ears visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man in a cap sits on a couch. [frame:1]
  • A man in a suit stands and speaks. [frame:2]
  • The man in the suit continues to stand and speak. [frame:3]
  • The man in the cap leans forward on the couch. [frame:4]
Also said
“getting fresh are you?” 56:29 · “If you know anything, you'll stay here until I get it out of you. It's a nice way to treat a person. I don't speak.” 56:30
Seen
couch [frame:1], cap [frame:1], suit [frame:2], clock [frame:2], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: authority, confrontation, interrogation; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, formal attire, period interior

A man in a dark coat and cap sits on a couch while another man in a suit stands nearby. The standing man is addressed as Detective Inspector Arseney Jones from Scotland Yard and is questioned about not wearing his hat indoors.

“Detective Inspector Arseney Jones.” 56:18 · “Scotland Yard. Well, why ain't you wearing your hat in the house?” 56:20 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 56:16 (passage 56:14–56:36); US record: No renewal found

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