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The Sign of Four · Beat 188 · permalink

Hallway

1:02:29–1:02:59 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 quotes checked against the transcript; 4 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 4 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:02:311:02:31Frame at 1:02:361:02:36Frame at 1:02:421:02:42Frame at 1:02:561:02:56

Play from 1:02:29 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 84 · shots 384–389. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
hallway (other, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • man with mustache, wearing bowler hat and dark coat visible
  • Mrs. Watson (named at t:62:38): not visible audible
  • Watson (named at t:62:38): not visible audible
  • Mr. Hudson (named at t:62:32): not visible audible
Seen happening
  • A man peers through a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A man in a bowler hat stands in a doorway, looking concerned. [frame:2]
  • The man walks down a hallway past a telephone booth and a clock. [frame:3]
  • The man continues walking away down the hallway. [frame:4]
Seen
telephone booth, clock, sign reading 'FUTURA', bowler hat
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: pursuit, secrecy, urban setting; style notes: black-and-white, medium shots, static camera, high-contrast lighting

A man in a bowler hat is seen in a hallway near a telephone booth and a clock, reacting to an off-screen voice. The transcript indicates a conversation about finding someone and a warning against calling the police.

“But Mr. Hudson, we simply must find him at once. Yes, yes, we've got his man.” 62:32 · “- I'll see how he is. - Mrs. Watson! Mrs. Watson! Mary! Mary! You can't do that! I can't! You don't call no coppers round here! Don't worry Watson!” 62:38 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 1:02:31 (passage 1:02:29–1:02:59); US record: No renewal found

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