Theatre

1:00:40–1:00:45 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.

1:00:43

Play from 1:00:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 73 · shots 363–363. 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 in light coat, standing on stage, facing audience visible
audience members, mostly seen from behind, some wearing hats visible

Seen

poster [frame:1], overhead bulbs [frame:1], hats [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, public presentation; themes: performance, public address, theatricality; style notes: medium shot from audience perspective, high-contrast lighting, staged composition

A man in a light coat stands on a stage before an audience, with a large poster behind him. The scene is lit by overhead bulbs and viewed from behind the seated crowd.

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 1:00:43 (passage 1:00:40–1:00:45); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b173.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b173"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/The_Sign_OF_Four/0363.webp" alt="Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 1:00:43 (passage 1:00:40–1:00:45); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Sign of Four (1932), 1:00:40–1:00:45. 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), 1:00:40–1:00:45", https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b173, from Internet Archive item The_Sign_OF_Four, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Theatre

Evidence and details

The record

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