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The Sign of Four · Beat 209 · permalink

Warehouse

1:10:10–1:10:36 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 5 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:10:191:10:19Frame at 1:10:311:10:31Frame at 1:10:351:10:35

Play from 1:10:10 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 91 · shots 424–426. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
warehouse (warehouse, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • dark-clothed, crouching figure visible
  • silhouetted figure among boxes visible
  • silhouetted figure among boxes visible
  • man seen from behind, dark coat visible
  • man seen from behind, dark coat visible
Seen happening
  • A person crouches on the floor in a cluttered room. [frame:1]
  • Two figures move through a space filled with stacked boxes. [frame:2]
  • Two men stand close together in a narrow, dim passage. [frame:3]
Also said
“Where's Mary?” 70:32 · “We'll find it.” 70:33
Seen
stacked boxes, dark coats
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and mysterious; themes: search, concealment, uncertainty; style notes: low-key lighting, high contrast, silhouetted figures, tight framing

A person is seen crouching in a dimly lit, cluttered interior space, then two figures are shown moving through stacked boxes, and finally two men are seen from behind in a narrow passage. Spoken lines include questions about location and a character named Mary.

“Huh?” 70:25 · “Where are you?” 70:27 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 1:10:19 (passage 1:10:10–1:10:36); US record: No renewal found

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