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The Sign of Four · Beat 46 · permalink

Private office

13:14–13:40 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 13:2013:20Frame at 13:2913:29Frame at 13:3613:36

Play from 13:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 25 · shots 82–84. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
private_office (private office, interior) evidence: frame:1
People
  • man, middle-aged, wearing light shirt and dark trousers, holding a dark garment visible, audible
  • man, heavier build, light shirt, dark trousers, standing with hands on hips visible
  • man, seated at table, wearing light shirt, partially obscured visible
Seen happening
  • A man holds a dark garment and speaks. [frame:1]
  • Two men stand near a seated man at a table; one adjusts his collar. [frame:2]
  • The man puts the dark garment over his head. [frame:3]
Also said
“But I can't wear these fucking dresses for long.” 13:35 · “They make me aches.” 13:38
Seen
dark garment, table, stacked boxes, hanging lamp
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense, conversational; themes: discomfort, identity, confinement; style notes: static medium shots, high-contrast lighting, confined space

A man in a dim interior handles a dark garment while speaking. Another man stands nearby; a third is seated at a table. The transcript includes lines about addiction, clothing discomfort, and a 'government haircut.'

“No, matey.” 13:16 · “What a beautiful thing it is to be addicted to.” 13:23 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 13:20 (passage 13:14–13:40); US record: No renewal found

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