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1:01:59–1:02:06 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 1:02:011:02:01Frame at 1:02:041:02:04

Play from 1:01:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 80 · shots 378–379. 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, frame:2
People
  • Slink (named at t:62:00): Man, wearing a light-colored shirt and dark trousers, medium build, visible in frame:1 leaning over another person. visible
  • Man, wearing a dark hat and dark clothing, lying or crouching on the ground in frame:1. visible
  • Man, wearing a light-colored shirt, visible in frame:2 reaching toward a large box. visible
  • Figure inside a large box in frame:2, wearing light clothing, possibly holding a book or paper. visible
Seen happening
  • A man in a white shirt leans over another person on the ground near a large cylindrical object. [frame:1]
  • A man in a white shirt reaches toward a large open box containing a figure. [frame:2]
Seen
large cylindrical object [frame:1], large open box [frame:2], book or paper [frame:2], hat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, confrontational; themes: confrontation, suspense; style notes: high-contrast black-and-white, dramatic framing with overhead and close shots, studio lighting

A man in a white shirt is seen leaning over another person on the ground near a large cylindrical object; in a separate shot, a man in a white shirt reaches toward a large open box containing a figure. A voice shouts a warning and names 'Slink'.

“Look out! Slink, you're through!” 62:00 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 1:02:01 (passage 1:01:59–1:02:06); US record: No renewal found

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