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The Sign of Four · Beat 48 · permalink

Private office

13:59–14:55 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 14:2714:27

Play from 13:59 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech; cut falls inside a spoken line: no pause was available without exceeding the length cap. Sequence 27 · shots 86–86. 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 wearing a dark suit and fedora, holding a small object visible
  • man wearing light-colored suit, standing on a raised platform visible
Seen happening
  • Two men stand in a room with wooden paneling; one holds an object, the other stands on a platform. [frame:1]
Also said
“Now for the treasure of Monte Cristo and the world is mine.” 14:18 · “because you're not etiquette.” 14:27
Seen
small object held by p1, raised wooden platform, wooden paneling on walls, framed picture on wall
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and conspiratorial; themes: secrecy, power, exhibition; style notes: static medium shot, high-contrast lighting, theatrical staging with raised platform

Two men are in an interior space with wooden paneling; one holds a small object while the other stands on a raised platform. A transcript line mentions a funfair, Tonga, and a treasure, but no names are spoken that can be assigned to the visible individuals.

“Now you stay right here in the funfair.” 13:59 · “And mind you keep an eye on Tonga too.” 14:04 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 14:27 (passage 13:59–14:55); US record: No renewal found

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