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The Sign of Four · Beat 32 · permalink

Living room

7:04–7:28 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 7:057:05Frame at 7:177:17

Play from 7:04 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 20 · shots 49–50. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
living_room (living room, interior) evidence: frame:2
People
  • man in dark suit, balding, standing visible, audible
  • man in dark suit, standing, holding p1's arm visible
  • man in dark suit, crouching near seated figure visible
  • seated figure, partially obscured, likely elderly or infirm visible
Seen happening
  • A man is being restrained by another man near a doorway. [frame:1]
  • A man crouches beside a seated figure while another stands nearby; bookshelves and a lamp are visible. [frame:2]
Also said
“No one's going to harm you.” 7:23 · “Not from Jonathan Small.” 7:26
Seen
tall decorative vase, candlestick, bookshelves, ornate lamp, armchair
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: fear, protection, confrontation; style notes: static medium shots, high contrast lighting, period costumes and decor

A man is restrained by another as a third person crouches near a seated figure; dialogue indicates fear of a character named Jonathan Small. The setting includes bookshelves and a decorative lamp, suggesting an interior room.

“What are you doing out of your chair? What's happened?” 7:05 · “Don't let him kill me. Don't let him kill me. Sarah.” 7:20 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 7:05 (passage 7:04–7:28); US record: No renewal found

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