Private office

9:12–9:19 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.

9:15

Play from 9:12 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 21 · shots 63–63. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place

(private office, interior) evidence: frame:1

People

older man, bald, wearing formal dark suit with bow tie and white shirt visible
arm and hand visible, wearing dark sleeve visible

Seen

bookshelf [frame:1], formal suit [frame:1], bow tie [frame:1]

Interpretation

Model opinion, not evidence: mood: serious; themes: formality, confrontation; style notes: medium close-up, high-contrast lighting, static framing

A man in formal attire sits in a room with bookshelves behind him. His hands rest on a surface, and another person's arm is visible to his right.

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 9:15 (passage 9:12–9:19); US record: No renewal found

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Card image: https://publicreel.org/cards/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b37.png
Figure for a newsletter or page: <figure><a href="https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b37"><img src="https://publicreel.org/atlas-img/The_Sign_OF_Four/0063.webp" alt="Frame from The Sign of Four (1932) at 9:15 (passage 9:12–9:19); US record: No renewal found" width="640"></a><figcaption>The Sign of Four (1932), 9:12–9:19. Internet Archive copy The_Sign_OF_Four; US record: No renewal found. Via Public Reel.</figcaption></figure>
Cite: Public Reel, "The Sign of Four (1932), 9:12–9:19", https://publicreel.org/moment/The_Sign_OF_Four/b37, from Internet Archive item The_Sign_OF_Four, retrieved 6 September 2026.

Private office

Evidence and details

The record

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