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The Sign of Four · Beat 161 · permalink

Living room

56:38–56:56 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 56:4256:42Frame at 56:4756:47Frame at 56:5256:52

Play from 56:38 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 330–332. 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:3
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing a dark overcoat and tie, medium build visible, audible
  • Mrs. Hudson (named at t:56:54): woman, older, wearing dark dress and necklace, visible in frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • Man gestures with hand near mouth while speaking [frame:1]
  • Man holds small object and speaks with open mouth [frame:2]
  • Man points toward chair while standing next to woman [frame:3]
Also said
“Oh.” 56:51 · “Which gives soda, Mrs. Hudson?” 56:54
Seen
dark overcoat [frame:1], small object (possibly key or tool) [frame:2], chair [frame:3], round table with glass [frame:3], framed picture on wall [frame:3], curtains [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and investigative; themes: mystery, problem-solving, domestic setting; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costume, minimal set dressing

A man in a dark coat gestures while speaking in a room with another person; the transcript includes dialogue about a reversed lock and a question about soda. The setting appears to be an interior space with furniture and a framed picture on the wall.

“Try the other way, my dear Jones. The lock is reversed.” 56:46 · “Groove.” 56:50 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 56:42 (passage 56:38–56:56); US record: No renewal found

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