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The Sign of Four · Beat 194 · permalink

Warehouse

1:06:23–1:06:59 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; 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 1 of 2 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:06:391:06:39Frame at 1:06:571:06:57

Play from 1:06:23 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 86 · shots 396–397. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
warehouse (warehouse, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark coat and hat, visible in smoke visible, audible
  • Mr. Holmes (named at t:66:56): unseen speaker, referenced as 'Mr. Holmes' audible, mentioned
Seen happening
  • A man in a hat and coat is visible in a smoky interior. [frame:1]
  • A boat is inside a large, dim warehouse with visible structural supports. [frame:2]
Seen
boat [frame:2], trap doors [t:66:56], smoke [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and secretive; themes: pursuit, hidden passages, urban danger; style notes: high-contrast lighting, smoky atmosphere, wide shot of warehouse interior

Two people are in a dark, smoky interior; one speaks of avoiding Crayley’s warehouse and following someone by river. A second frame shows a boat inside a large, dim warehouse with trap doors mentioned in dialogue.

“I ain't gonna take a chance like that. You do it, I tell you. It's Crayley's warehouse. We'll dodge him there.” 66:24 · “The porticoid knows this river like a book. So do I, Mr. Holmes. We'll follow him there. There are two trap doors underneath the warehouse floor.” 66:56 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 1:06:39 (passage 1:06:23–1:06:59); US record: No renewal found

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