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The Sign of Four · Beat 190 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:03:19–1:03:44 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 3 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 1 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:03:321:03:32

Play from 1:03:19 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 84 · shots 392–392. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
vehicle_interior (vehicle interior, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man wearing a fedora and dark coat, visible from chest up visible
  • man wearing a bowler hat and lighter jacket, visible from chest up visible
  • woman with light-colored hair, partially obscured between the two men visible
Seen happening
  • Two men sit with a woman between them in a confined space. [frame:1]
Also said
“Give up, guys. We're getting to the river. Goodbye. Hold me, go on. We'll get to the taxi.” 63:42
Seen
fedora hat [frame:1], bowler hat [frame:1], dark coat [frame:1], lighter jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and urgent; themes: escape, pursuit, confinement; style notes: tight framing, high-contrast lighting, close-up composition emphasizing confinement

Two men in hats are seated close together in a confined space, one holding a woman between them; dialogue suggests they are fleeing toward a river and a taxi. The scene is lit with high-contrast studio lighting and appears to be inside a vehicle or small room.

“We'll search her for them when we get to the bunker.” 63:30 · “Well, she'll never see them again. That's soot. Go on, Fred. Faster!” 63:34 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 1:03:32 (passage 1:03:19–1:03:44); US record: No renewal found

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