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The Sign of Four · Beat 191 · permalink

Vehicle interior

1:03:44–1:04:16 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 1:04:001:04:00

Play from 1:03:44 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 85 · shots 393–393. 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 with mustache, wearing bowler hat and suit visible, audible
  • man wearing cap and coat visible, audible
Also said
“I only had to discover where the jewels were.” 64:05 · “I'd keep your head you'll need it. And your fists still before we're through with this. 12-4, roll it down river. Come on, quick.” 64:12
Seen
bowler hat [frame:1], cap [frame:1], suit [frame:1], coat [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: urgent and tense; themes: pursuit, mystery, partnership; style notes: close two-shot, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Two men are seated in a vehicle interior, discussing a pursuit involving a boat and jewels. One man, wearing a bowler hat and mustache, speaks with certainty about their target's location, while the other, in a cap, listens intently.

“Thousands of places in London. How do you know they've chosen Mordecai's middle? Certain of it.” 63:49 · “What if they get away in a past boat before we can catch him? I've engaged the pastor one this morning, the Flores B. - How do you know it, Clark? - Well, I know it. Don't ask me how I know it, Watson. What a colossal mistake you've made. I had those fellows, all of them, right in my head.” 63:53 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 1:04:00 (passage 1:03:44–1:04:16); US record: No renewal found

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