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The Sign of Four · Beat 57 · permalink

Private office

16:52–16:55 Registered 1932

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 2 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 16:5416:54

Play from 16:52 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 95–95. 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 seated at desk, wearing dark clothing, visible from waist up visible
  • man standing, wearing dark suit and hat, facing p1 visible
Seen
desk [frame:1], scattered papers [frame:1], shelves [frame:1], fireplace [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confrontation, investigation; style notes: static medium shot, high contrast lighting, cluttered composition

Two men stand in a cluttered room with papers scattered on the floor and a desk; one man is seated at the desk while the other stands facing him. The room appears to be an office or study with shelves and a fireplace visible.

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 16:54 (passage 16:52–16:55); US record: No renewal found

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