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1:00:32–1:00:35 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.

1:00:34

Play from 1:00:32 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 71 · shots 361–361. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

other (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1

People

person standing elevated near sign, wearing light-colored hat and coat visible
crowd of people in dark coats and hats, backs mostly to camera visible

Seen

sign reading 'TONGA', stone wall with arched entrance

On screen

TONGA

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: curious or anticipatory; themes: crowd gathering, mystery; style notes: medium shot, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A crowd gathers before a stone wall with a sign reading 'TONGA' above an arched entrance. One person stands elevated near the sign while others face the entrance.

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 1:00:34 (passage 1:00:32–1:00:35); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b171.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b171"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/The_Sign_OF_Four/0361.webp" alt="Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 1:00:34 (passage 1:00:32–1:00:35); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Sign of Four (1932), 1:00:32–1:00:35. 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), 1:00:32–1:00:35", https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b171, from Internet Archive item The_Sign_OF_Four, retrieved 6 September 2026.

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