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The Sign of Four · Beat 47 · permalink

Funfair

13:40–13:59 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 13:5013:50

Play from 13:40 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 26 · shots 85–85. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
funfair (other) evidence: t:13:59
People
  • lower body visible: dark trousers, black shoes with white straps or buckles visible
Seen happening
  • A person stands still, showing only legs and feet in dark trousers and distinctive shoes. [frame:1]
Also said
“Now you stay right here in the funfair.” 13:59
Seen
shoes [frame:1], trousers [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: casual, slightly boastful from the voice, visually static and low-key; themes: appearance and presentation, leisure or social gathering; style notes: low-angle shot focused on feet; dim, high-contrast lighting; grainy black-and-white film stock

A person wearing dark trousers and distinctive shoes stands on a dimly lit ground; a voice speaks about dressing for a Sunday meeting and staying at a funfair. No names, times of day, or clear locations beyond 'funfair' are established.

“I just put on me best Sunday go to meeting props.” 13:41 · “and give the ladies an eyeful.” 13:44 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 13:50 (passage 13:40–13:59); US record: No renewal found

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