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The Sign of Four · Beat 163 · permalink

Living room

57:40–58:09 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 57:4657:46Frame at 57:5457:54Frame at 58:0158:01Frame at 58:0758:07

Play from 57:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 342–345. 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
  • woman with light-colored hair, wearing a dark sleeveless dress with a light collar, seated on a sofa visible, audible
  • man with dark hair and mustache, wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and tie; standing and moving visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A woman sits on a sofa while a man stands with his back to the camera. [frame:1]
  • The woman is shown in a close-up, looking forward with a concerned expression. [frame:2]
  • The man stands facing forward, hands behind his back, in a room with a lamp and framed picture. [frame:3]
  • The man leans forward over the sofa toward the woman. [frame:4]
Also said
“Under guard like a prisoner.” 57:51 · “I've been doing a little detective work on my own.” 57:58
Seen
sofa, lamp, framed picture, curtains, vase with flowers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and anxious; themes: confinement, detective work, suspicion; style notes: static medium shots and close-ups, high-contrast lighting, formal attire suggests early 20th-century setting

A woman sits on a sofa while a man in a suit stands and moves around a room; dialogue indicates they are discussing being under guard and a tattooed man. The woman expresses hope that Mr. Holmes is present, and the man claims to have done detective work without Holmes's knowledge.

“Oh, I do hope Mr. Holmes is there for this...” 57:46 · “It's been awful cooped up here all day.” 57:49 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 57:46 (passage 57:40–58:09); US record: No renewal found

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