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The Sign of Four · Beat 166 · permalink

Street

58:44–59:00 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 58:5258:52

Play from 58:44 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: topic shift in dialogue. Sequence 67 · shots 352–352. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a suit and hat, medium build, appears middle-aged visible
  • partially visible person in crowd, wearing coat visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a suit and hat stands among a crowd. [frame:1]
Also said
“I'll get my coat.” 58:46 · “Oh, yeah.” 58:51
Seen
suit [frame:1], hat [frame:1], decorative lights [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: anticipatory; themes: departure, social interaction; style notes: low-key lighting, medium shot, crowd composition suggests public space

A man in a suit and hat stands among a crowd at night; dialogue suggests preparing to leave. The scene is dimly lit with decorative lights visible in the background.

“Shall we go?” 58:44 · “Will you?” 58:45 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 58:52 (passage 58:44–59:00); US record: No renewal found

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