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The Sign of Four · Beat 59 · permalink

Private office

17:30–17:42 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 17:3317:33Frame at 17:3917:39

Play from 17:30 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 98–99. 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
  • bald, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, mid-adult visible, audible
  • wearing a cap, light jacket, bow tie, mid-adult visible, audible
  • side profile, dark suit, mid-adult visible
Also said
“Eddie!” 17:38 · “Yes.” 17:40
Seen
bow tie [frame:1], cap [frame:2], suit jacket [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: confession, treasure, confrontation; style notes: close framing, high-contrast lighting, static camera

Three men are in a close conversation; one is bald and wears a bow tie, another wears a cap and bow tie, and a third is partially visible. A voice asks if someone killed for treasure, and another voice responds 'Yes.'

“He confessed.” 17:31 · “Did he kill you all about the treasure?” 17:36 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 17:33 (passage 17:30–17:42); US record: No renewal found

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