Theatre

59:14–59:18 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

59:16

Play from 59:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 69 · shots 354–354. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

theatre (theatre, interior) evidence: frame:1

People

man wearing a white coat over dark clothing, standing, mid-adult build visible
audience members, mostly seen from behind, wearing hats and coats visible

Seen

poster [frame:1], stage lights [frame:1], hats [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, presentational; themes: public performance, spectacle, audience engagement; style notes: medium shot, frontal framing, high-contrast studio lighting, static composition

A man in a white coat stands before an audience in front of a poster featuring a muscular figure. The setting appears to be a public venue with stage lighting and an audience seated in front of him.

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 59:16 (passage 59:14–59:18); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b168.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b168"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/The_Sign_OF_Four/0354.webp" alt="Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 59:16 (passage 59:14–59:18); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Sign of Four (1932), 59:14–59:18. Internet Archive copy The_Sign_OF_Four; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "The Sign of Four (1932), 59:14–59:18", https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b168, from Internet Archive item The_Sign_OF_Four, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Theatre

Evidence and details

The record

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