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The Sign of Four · Beat 164 · permalink

Living room

58:09–58:27 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 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 58:1358:13Frame at 58:1858:18Frame at 58:2358:23

Play from 58:09 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 66 · shots 346–348. 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, middle-aged, mustache, dark suit, white pocket square visible, audible
  • woman, blonde, seated, wearing dark dress visible
Seen happening
  • The man stands beside a seated woman in a room with curtains and a lamp. [frame:1]
  • The man gestures with his hand while speaking. [frame:2]
  • The woman is visible seated on a couch as the man stands beside her. [frame:3]
Also said
“but there's one just behind King's Cross.” 58:21 · “A fun fair, they call it.” 58:23
Seen
lamp, curtains, couch, picture frame
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: conversational and slightly skeptical; themes: urban mystery, everyday conversation, skepticism toward spectacle; style notes: static medium shots, soft studio lighting, period costume, no camera movement

A man in a suit stands beside a seated woman in a dimly lit room with curtains and a lamp; they discuss a tattooed man and a fun fair near King's Cross. No names are spoken, and no time of day or period is established.

“You know... The whole idea of a tattooed man tattooing needles...” 58:10 · “Sounds to me like a circus.” 58:16 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 58:13 (passage 58:09–58:27); US record: No renewal found

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