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The Sign of Four · Beat 60 · permalink

Private office

17:42–18:04 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 17:5317:53

Play from 17:42 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 33 · shots 100–100. 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
  • seated, back to camera, dark suit visible visible
  • standing, bald, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, heavy build visible
  • standing, dark hair, wearing a dark suit, thinner build visible
Also said
“I don't know. Huh?” 17:58 · “are the guides” 18:01
Seen
wooden door, table, papers
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense; themes: theft, interrogation, mystery; style notes: medium shot, static camera, high-contrast lighting typical of early sound films

Three men are present in a room; one is seated and two are standing. One standing man speaks while another listens; the seated person responds with confusion. The dialogue suggests a search for stolen jewelry.

“Mary?” 17:44 · “We've been wasting our energy up sitting in the gentleman's house.” 17:45 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 17:53 (passage 17:42–18:04); US record: No renewal found

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