Beat 2
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.
Play from 0:01 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page
Evidence and details
Starts here: on-screen text appears or ends. Sequence 2 · shots 1–1. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.
- Seen
- title card
- On screen
- An ASSOCIATED RADIO PICTURE THE SIGN OF FOUR Sherlock Holmes Greatest Case Adapted from the story by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
- Interpretation
- Model opinion, not evidence: mood: formal, introductory; themes: adaptation, mystery; style notes: static title card, high-contrast black-and-white typography, centered framing
The beat shows a title card for the 1932 film 'The Sign of Four,' adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle. No characters or actions are visible; only text is displayed.
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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