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10:11–10:34 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 10:2310:23

Play from 10:11 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 24 · shots 68–68. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
(other)
People
  • lower legs and feet visible; one foot is bare, the other appears to be in a patterned stocking or sock; no face or upper body visible visible
Seen happening
  • a person's foot is being jabbed [frame:1]
Seen
foot, stocking or sock
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: ambiguous, possibly violent or comedic due to the jabbing and disjointed dialogue; themes: physical comedy, unresolved narrative, fragmented dialogue; style notes: close-up shot, high-contrast black and white, grainy film quality, tight framing on lower limbs

A single frame at 623s shows a close-up of a person's lower legs and feet, one of which is being jabbed. The transcript includes a line about jabbing feet and a disjointed phrase about pearls and love.

“Couple more jab to the feet, matey.” 10:26 · “and a beautiful spectacle of love wearing the raw smatana pearls will be finished.” 10:28 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 10:23 (passage 10:11–10:34); US record: No renewal found

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