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The Sign of Four · Beat 172 · permalink

Street

1:00:35–1:00:40 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:00:381:00:38

Play from 1:00:35 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 72 · shots 362–362. 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
  • woman in a fur coat, mid-20s to 30s, medium build visible
  • man in a suit and bowler hat, 30s to 40s, average build visible
  • man in a dark coat and hat, smiling, 30s to 40s visible
  • woman with dark hair and hat, partially visible visible
Seen
fur coat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], dark coats and hats [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: crowded and bustling; themes: urban life, crowd dynamics; style notes: medium shot, black-and-white, high contrast lighting, period costume

A crowded street scene with several people in coats and hats, including a woman in a fur coat and a man in a suit and bowler hat. No dialogue or on-screen text is present in the frames.

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 1:00:38 (passage 1:00:35–1:00:40); US record: No renewal found

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