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The Sign of Four · Beat 204 · permalink

Warehouse

1:08:59–1:09:23 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 2 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 1:09:041:09:04Frame at 1:09:101:09:10Frame at 1:09:171:09:17Frame at 1:09:211:09:21

Play from 1:08:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 90 · shots 413–417. 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, frame:4
People
  • dark clothing, possibly a hat, seen in profile visible
  • lying on ground, dark clothing, head visible visible
Seen happening
  • A person walks past draped fabric in a dim space. [frame:1]
  • A person stands among barrels in a warehouse. [frame:2]
  • A person lies on the ground near a bright light source. [frame:3]
  • A cluttered area with bales, crates, and barrels is shown from above. [frame:4]
Seen
barrels [frame:2], bales [frame:4], crates [frame:4], draped fabric [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, shadowy; themes: clandestine activity, industrial setting, suspense; style notes: high-contrast lighting, static camera, medium and high-angle shots

A person moves through a dimly lit space with barrels and stacked goods. A figure is seen lying on the ground near a bright light source, and another shot shows a cluttered area with bales and crates.

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 1:09:04 (passage 1:08:59–1:09:23); US record: No renewal found

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