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The Sign of Four · Beat 179 · permalink

Street

1:01:06–1:01:36 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Not yet checked. The automatic checks have not run on this beat. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:01:091:01:09Frame at 1:01:141:01:14Frame at 1:01:241:01:24Frame at 1:01:331:01:33

Play from 1:01:06 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 79 · shots 369–373. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
street (street, exterior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in light-colored coat, dark hair, medium build visible
  • man in dark suit and bowler hat, mustache, medium build visible
  • man in dark coat and cap, medium build visible
  • man in light shirt, medium build visible
  • man in robe, medium build visible
  • man in cap, medium build visible
  • unspecified, mentioned as 'her' and 'friends' mentioned
  • unspecified, addressed as 'doctor' mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a light coat gestures while speaking. [frame:1]
  • A man in a dark suit and bowler hat stands in a crowd on a street. [frame:2]
  • Two men struggle indoors near a table. [frame:3]
  • A man in a robe confronts another man closely. [frame:4]
Also said
“Offload, doctor.” 61:25 · “I let her off in the forest shop. I've just seen her with her friends. - You sure? - Yes. And she looks as if she knew me.” 61:30
Seen
bowler hat, light-colored coat, dark suit, table, robe, cap
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: confrontation, urban setting, mystery; style notes: black-and-white, medium close-ups and medium shots, high-contrast lighting, period costumes

A man in a light coat speaks while gesturing; another man in a dark suit and bowler hat is seen in a crowd; two men struggle indoors; a man in a robe confronts another man closely. The transcript includes dialogue about going home, someone being seen in a forest shop, and a doctor being addressed.

“come on let's go home just a minute i'll give everything prepared for you” 61:12 · “What's up?” 61:22 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 1:01:09 (passage 1:01:06–1:01:36); US record: No renewal found

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