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The Sign of Four · Beat 17 · permalink

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4:52–5:14 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; 1 name checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 4:564:56Frame at 5:015:01Frame at 5:075:07Frame at 5:115:11

Play from 4:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 10 · shots 28–32. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
other (other, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man in dark clothing, visible in motion, appears to be middle-aged based on facial features in frame:3 visible, audible
Seen happening
  • A man runs through a debris-strewn arched space. [frame:1]
  • A dark, indistinct figure moves rapidly. [frame:2]
  • A man's face is shown in close-up, eyes closed, mouth open as if shouting or in pain. [frame:3]
  • A man in a light shirt is seen falling or being thrown backward. [frame:4]
Also said
“Come on.” 5:08 · “No!” 5:12
Seen
brick arch [frame:1], debris on floor [frame:1], dark clothing [frame:1], light-colored shirt [frame:4]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: conflict, urgency, physical struggle; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white lighting, tight framing on faces and motion, use of shadows to obscure detail

A person is seen moving urgently in a dark, arched space with debris, while voices urge action and one exclaims 'No!'. The setting appears to be an underground or enclosed area with brick walls and low lighting.

“Oh, my God.” 4:52 · “I'm going to go.” 5:03 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 4:56 (passage 4:52–5:14); US record: No renewal found

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